Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende)
Ingmar Bergman, 1955
B&W, cert PG, 108 mins
Saturday 8 November, 2.30pm
Sainsbury Wing Theatre
Bergman’s light-headed comedy revolves around a group of mismatched lovers, gathered at an elegant country house party in the summer of 1900.
Although ruthless towards his characters’ amorous pretensions – from pompous aristocrats to lusty servants – Bergman paints an engaging picture of their impassioned search for love.
As film critic Pauline Kael observed, ‘boudoir farce becomes lyric poetry’. This witty and erotic film, which won the award for best comedy at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956, inspired Woody Allen’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy' (1982).
Tickets: £4/£3 concessions
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