A Lesson in Love (1954 film)
1954 film
- 4 October 1954 (1954-10-04)
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A Lesson in Love (Swedish: En lektion i kärlek) is a 1954 Swedish comedy film directed by Ingmar Bergman.
The film is about the marriage of a gynecologist named David and his wife Marianne. The film's score was composed by Dag Wirén.
Cast
- Eva Dahlbeck – Marianne Erneman
- Gunnar Björnstrand – David Erneman
- Yvonne Lombard – Susanne Verin
- Harriet Andersson – Nix
- Åke Grönberg – Carl-Adam
- Olof Winnerstrand – Professor Henrik Erneman
- Renée Björling – Svea Erneman
- John Elfström – Sam
- Birgitte Reimer – Lise
- Dagmar Ebbesen – Nurse Lisa
- Sigge Fürst – Vicar
Reception
A Lesson in Love received generally positive reviews from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 100% approval (based on six critics), with an average rating of 7.2/10.[1]
On the film's U.S. release in 1960, Bosley Crowther opined in The New York Times, that its subject "...is the complexity of love...It is a subject that Mr. Bergman expanded in his subsequent "Smiles of a Summer Night," with more wit and satiric implication. But, for a warm-up, he got off nicely here...Mr. Bergman plays around with it in such a clever and thought-provoking way that the emotional dilemma implicit in it has humor, wisdom and charm...And, as in all of his pictures, Mr. Bergman has used a cast that seems to act with inspired understanding—which means, of course, sympathy with him."[2]
References
External links
- A Lesson in Love at IMDb
- A Lesson in Love at the Swedish Film Institute Database
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