Saturday, July 28, 2012

It Rains on Our Love (1946)

Nordisk Tonefilm  (Sweden)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
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Recently released from prison, David stumbles on Maggi at a train station. Broke and desperate, he convinces her to stay with him for a night in a hotel room. So begins their troubled relationship. They end up renting a small house from a landlord who may or may not be helping them. He gets a menial job in a gardening shop. She reveals that she is pregnant from a former one night stand. They try to fit into the conservative Swedish small town without much luck. When David punches a tax collector who tries to kick them out of their house he is put on trial, which turns into a moral review of their life by peers and neighbors. In just his second feature film, Bergman is already exploring the nuances of relationships, and those familiar with his more mature works will be fascinated by the similarities.

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