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by metalluk  - Top 100, Nov 21 '04
Pros: Rollicking good fun, witty dialog, strong performances, gorgeous high-contrast black-and-white photography
Cons: Cynical Bergman view of love, marriage, and fidelity
“Smiles” is a film that will provide you with some grins and chuckles, but it also brought something of a career-saving smile to Ingmar Bergman’s face, back before virtually anyone in American had even heard of him. Historical ...
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by thevoid99 - Top 100, May 25 '09
Pros: Bergman's Script/Direction, Cinematography, Art Direction, Music, & Cast.
Cons: The Pacing Lags at Times in First 2 Acts.
Before capturing the attention of international cinema in the late 1950s, Ingmar Bergman was just another director from Sweden who was making films for his native country. With 15 films to his credit at the time, they were acclaimed in its native ...
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by blade_runner83 , Sep 26 '05
Pros: Performances. Direction. Humour. Cinematography
Cons: None
In 1955, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman was almost at the end of his rope. Literally. With a series of bleak critical and commercial flops in his native Sweden, Bergman was given one last chance to repair his tattered career by his bosses at ...
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by Grouch - Top 200, Jun 26 '00
Pros: As light and frothy as an ice cream soda...This is not your daddy's brooding Bergman
Cons: A little bit of theatricality goes a long way
The voice on the other end of the phone had a blithely ignorant quality that could only come from a teenager weaned on Taco Bell chalupas, bubblegum boy bands and Freddie Prinze Jr. movies: “‘Miles Until the Night’?”
“No,” I patiently repeated...
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by macresarf1 - Top 100, Jun 26 '00
Pros: Superb direction, human insights, photography and acting.
Cons: A film so imitated that salacious imitations may appeal more to modern audiences.
Once, driving through the mountains of Montana in late June, we picked up a young fellow by the roadside. He was heading home, five miles away. As he shyly climbed into the car, I said, "What a glorious afternoon!"
He squinted at the sun...
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by energy81 , Apr 08 '00
Pros: societal boldness, comical acting
Cons: can drag, too many lingering scenes
When I started watching this film, I could not believe it had been made in 1957. But then I realized that only American films of that time seem to have the handcuffs of absolute purity slapped on them, keeping everything on the straight and narrow. Or...
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by MK2K , Jun 26 '00
Pros: Intelligent, funny.
Cons: Petra doubles back as a character near the end
Leave it to the Swedes to make a film about wife swapping in the middle 50s, when McCarthy was reigning hellfire upon the Hollywood entertainment industry. The Swedes, always cinematic innovators, have produced the Dogme manifesto, made a very popular...
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by hallcinematic , Feb 16 '02
Pros: An interesting take on male insecurities
Cons: The pacing's a little off in the beginning.
Smiles of a Summer Night moves slowly, but to its credit -- Ingmar Bergman's (the writer and director of the film) credit -- the outcome of its story is unable to be predicted. The movie begins with the story of an unfaithful, 40 year old lawyer named...
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