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Originally Posted by SlickDamian
Summer Interlude is beautiful and thought provoking. Just a very heartfelt, intriguing film. Godard once said that it was the most beautiful film that he had ever seen.
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Yes, besides the obligatory THE SEVENTH SEAL and WILD STRAWBERRIES, among Criterion's Bergman releases SUMMER INTERLUDE is one of my favorites, and is a great precursor of the style and most of the themes he'd be treating for the rest of his career. I also love SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT, and SUMMER WITH MONIKA is very strong. THE MAGICIAN is good, but only after you've seen several other earlier Bergmans (especially THE SEVENTH SEAL and SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT, among others), so you can recognize his clever variations, if not outright parodies, of what he'd done before.