Bernachona Su It is a lovely and sweet story which tells a beautiful ballerina mourning her lover's death at her youthful age. She is too sad to get away the great sorrow and open her mind to a journalist who is her lately lover. This film not only tells the wonderful memories and the praise of life but also faces the shadow of death. I like their performance and the narrative of intertwining the romantic moment and the tragic event. Ingmar Bergman truly did a great movie at the beginning in 1950s, preceding the following masterpieces in the film history.

TheLittleSongbird Actually there is nothing wrong with Summer Interlude as such, it's just that I don't think it is quite on the same level as Ingmar Bergman's very best. Bergman's direction is as always superb. The cinematography positively shimmers, and the images of the sunny Swedish countryside are beautiful to look at. The writing is thought-provoking, affecting in its honesty and sweet in how it deals with the romantic elements. The story still has the dramatic intensity and structural complexity that helps to form the best of Bergman's films. The two lead characters are touching and are likable, Marie being world-weary and Henrik being timid. The acting helps to reflect that, especially Maj-Britt Nilsson whose performance is so sensitive that you wonder why she wasn't in more after this and Secrets of Women. Birger Malmsten is not quite in the same league but gives a well-contrasted performance still. All in all, a lovely film if not quite among Bergman's very best movies. 9/10 Bethany Cox

writers_reign How simple it must have been back in 1951 to take or leave this film as what it said on the tin, a bittersweet doomed love leaving the survivor full of old regrets, rather than ignoring the story and looking for clues - the chess game with one of the players terminally ill, the wild strawberries, add-your-own referentials - to the famous filmmaker he became rather than the fledgling -this was his tenth film as director - he was here. Long before film came on the scene Literature was cutting its teeth on doomed love and throwing up the odd classic along the way. In film terms we think of Mayerling, Brief Encounter, Ripening Seed, Le Ble en herbe, Le Diable au corps etc, only one of which (Ripening Seed) features teenage love though all are shot through with angst on a spectrum ranging from melancholy to tragedy. Bergman's if fit to be mentioned in the same sentence as those cited whilst being superior to none of them.

Claudio Carvalho While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson) receives a diary through the mail. She travels by ferry to an island nearby Stockholm, where she recalls her first love Henrik (Birger Malmsten). Thirteen years ago, while traveling to spend her summer vacation with her aunt Elisabeth (Renée Björling) and her uncle Erland (Georg Funkquist), Marie meets Henrik in the ferry and sooner they fall in love for each other. They spend summer vacation together when a tragedy separates them and Marie builds a wall affecting her sentimental life."Sommarlek" is a simple little film of the great director Ingmar Bergman in the beginning of his successful career. The plot discloses through flashbacks a tragic and timeless love story affecting the life of the lead character that builds a wall to protect her sentiments and loses her innocence with her corrupt uncle. The cinematography, landscapes, sceneries and camera work are awesome, using magnificent locations and unusual angles to shot the movie. Maj-Britt Nilsson and Birger Malmsten have great performances in this beautiful and melancholic film. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Juventude" ("Youth")