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A Lesson In Love

1954, Movie, NR, 95 mins

A Lesson In Love: Review

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Ingmar Bergman, of course, is best known for his dark, moody dramas, but this early comedy shows the director's seldom-seen playful side. Told in a series of flashbacks, the film opens with David (Gunnar Bjornstrand), a middle-aged gynecologist, breaking off his affair with Suzanne (Yvonne Lombard), a cute, desirable, and married 21-year-old patient. Because of his own infidelities, David risks losing his wife, Marianne (Eva Dahlbeck), who has begun an affair with Carl Adam (Ake Gronberg), a drunken sculptor she left standing at the altar some 16 years before. The beginning of David and Marianne's romance, their visits to his parents' estate, discussions about love and infidelity, and their efforts to raise their children (tomboyish daughter Harriet Andersson shocks her father when she requests a sex change operation) are all recounted as David and Marianne travel by train to Copenhagen, where she has agreed to marry Carl Adam. Subtitled "A Comedy for Grown-ups," A LESSON IN LOVE is a fine mix of compassion and humor that plays like a fairy tale (even a little Cupid appears at the finale). While the film could at any point become a tragedy, it instead follows the path of a delightful romantic comedy because, as the narrator explains, "the gods were kind." The film was released in the US in 1960. (In Swedish; English subtitles.) leave a comment
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