Bergman looks back at bygone summers in the final two films in Through Bergman's Lens: Ingmar Bergman Centenary Film Series. Bosley Crowther asked of Smiles of a Summer Night, "Who would have thought that august Sweden would be sending us a film comedy as witty and cheerfully candid about the complexities of love as any recent French essay on l'amour?: Our closing film, Wild Strawberries, was called by Geoff Andrew "one of Bergman's warmest, and therefore finest films" Introduction by Professor John MacKay. 35mm prints from the Yale Film Archive.
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Time/Date:
Thursday, Dec. 6
7 p.m. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955, 108 mins)
9 p.m. Wild Strawberries (1957, 91 mins)
Location:
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public.
Through Bergman's Lens is presented by the Yale Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney with support from Paul L. Joskow '70 M.Phil., '72 Ph.D.
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