Summer with Monika

1953 [SWEDISH]

Action / Drama / Romance

39
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 83% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 17489 17.5K

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Plot summary

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Director

Ingmar Bergman Photo
Ingmar Bergman

Top cast

Renée Björling Photo
Renée Björling as Görans fru
John Harryson Photo
John Harryson as Lelle, Harrys rival
Astrid Bodin Photo
Astrid Bodin as En fru i gärdsfönstret
Carl-Axel Elfving Photo
Carl-Axel Elfving as Harrys arbetskamrat
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798.11 MB
988*720
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 10
1.53 GB
1472*1072
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 24

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TheAnimalMother 6 / 10

When Young Dreams Become Adult Nightmares

Reviewed by MOscarbradley 7 / 10

No masterpiece but essential nevertheless

He wasn't always the old glum maestro. Although the young lovers in "Summer with Monika" might have fitted quite easily into a British Kitchen Sink film, this early Bergman is less grim than we later came to expect and although minor, this film has much to admire; it actually reminded me a bit of "A Kind of Loving".A young Harriet Andersson is Monika and Lars Ekborg is Harry, the boy who loves her enough to want to spend a lot longer than just the summer with her. You might say that for Bergman this is a very simple picture filled with very simple people but Bergman treats them with a fair degree of sympathy. Monika may be just a little tart or simply a young woman trapped in an early marriage while Harry is always seen as trying to do the decent thing and the ending, if not exactly upbeat, is less of a Bergman downer than usual. No masterpiece, then, but an essential part of the canon nevertheless.
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