Directed by Ingmar Bergman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Criterion Eclipse)
The courtship and marriage of two young musicians is chronicled in this early Bergman drama. Stig Olin has an inauspicious debut as a soloist in a Swedish village orchestra. He refuses to recognize his own limitations, even when they are pointed out by the conductor. He impulsively marries another musician in the orchestra, but before long is having an affair with a younger girl who is more suited to his immature temperament. Years pass and the couple have children, while his extramarital affair sours. They contemplate divorce but manage to work it out after some time apart. Bergman hasn't quite put all of the pieces together yet, but it foreshadows many of the themes that he would continue to explore in later films.
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