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Smiles of Another Adaptation

IN Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film “Smiles of a Summer Night,” a romantic crisis is sparked by a trip to the theater and, in particular, a moment of eye contact that takes place there. Fredrik Egerman, a middle-aged lawyer, and his much younger wife, Anne, are attending a performance of a sophisticated comedy about French aristocrats starring the well-known actress Desirée Armfeldt. Early in the play, as Desirée delivers a witty, somewhat risqué speech about relations between men and women, she looks up at Fredrik, who was her lover some years before. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (10136 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 27 dicembre 2009