Sunday, August 5, 2012

A Lesson in Love (1954)

Svensk Filmindustri
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
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A married couple contemplating divorce remember their relationship while on a train to meet her lover. Flashbacks tell how they met, some family life with their daughter and grandparents and how their love went astray. Back in real time, the final scenes in a Copenhagen harbor bar have them getting back together in an unexpected way. Bergman calls this an "adult comedy", but the comedy is light and unobtrusive. Eva Dahlbeck can be shrill we she gets all fired up, and is unconvincing as a teenager, but Gunnar Bjornstrand is outstanding as usual.

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