By Peter Cowie
Bergman is notorioiusly tough to sum up - we've had biographical, psychoanalytical, non secular, aesthetic, God-knows-what-else approaches... yet this ebook is set the simplest you'll get. Cowie, rightly considered as a professional on Swedish and Finnish movie, presents a readable, informative and delicate historical past. It has that ideal blend of sufficient truth for the uninitiated and sufficient interpretation for the devotee.
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They always fail. Doris finally flings herself into the arms of the fiancé with whom she’s had such a tiff in the opening sequence, while Susanne resumes her role as the elegant proprietress of her salon. Both women have laid aside their masks for a brief moment, but the security of their daily lives proves more compelling than the temptations of an arid, furtive affair, Seen in a social context, this amounts to an extremely conservative attitude. Bergman seems to be chiding his characters for essaying emotional risks.
When the strike had been settled, the backlog of projects was considerable. Bergman shot two features, back to back, in 1952: Secrets of Women (Kvinnors väntan, also known as Waiting Women) and Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika). Gun Grut had conceived the nucleus of Secrets of Women, with its engaging conceit of three wives recounting an adventure from their marriages while they are all at a summer house awaiting their husbands’ return. Rakel (Anita Bjöork) is the first tell her story, which is a direct reworking of Bergman’s early play, Rakel and the Cinema Doorman.
Desirée’s lover of the moment is Count Malcolm (Jarl Kulle), who is affronted by the presence of Egerman. Desirée engineers an elaborate house party at her mother’s manor, in order to bring about a confrontation between Malcolm and Egerman, to whom she is drawn somewhat more profoundly than she cares to admit. The party gets out of hand. Egereman’s son by an earlier marriage finds himself attracted to the innocent Anne. Petra (Harriet Andersson), Anne’s maid, has a lusty frolic with Frid (Åke Fridell), the groom of old Mrs.