Summer with Monica is an extraordinary creation by Bergman. This is one of his earliest movies. In many ways this is a remarkable film of a great director.
Here we can find a key to understand the narrative style of Bergman. On the main surface of the story you can not find the meaning of the cinema. But this meaning is hidden behind the whole experience of the film.
The story begins with the beautiful days of summer in a coffee house. A boy meets girl and soon they fall in love with each other. Though they depressed with their present life but hopeful for the future. And one day they decide that this world is not enough for them and they go away by a motorboat.
And we find a beautiful series of images. The sky, the clouds, the sea, the shore and the sparkling laugh of youth. We can feel everything with this young couple, the sensuality, the laughter and the fear. One day we find that the things go on the wrong way. And they decide to go back their home.
Now the girl Monica is pregnant and after a series of events, where they get married and boy find a job, we find they become a parent of nice baby. This film has two remarkable close-ups in the history of cinema and one is there when the saw his baby first time. We didn't see in that scene instead-of his face. In this long, single-shot close-up you can understand that now everything is going to change.
And soon we find that Monica has no interest in her baby. She is not happy with his married life. She always lives in fantasies and hates the realities and responsibilities of the life. And one day she find her old boy friend and spends her days with with him.
Here we find one more extraordinary close-up. This is the close-up of Monica and she is seeing direct to camera mens we can feel the expression of her eyes and their a cloud of suspicion and uncertainty. After that in one more scene the couple quarreled with each-other and she left her home. In the last scene we find our hero again in front of a mirror in a coffee house like the first scene of the movie.
Here we can find a key to understand the narrative style of Bergman. On the main surface of the story you can not find the meaning of the cinema. But this meaning is hidden behind the whole experience of the film.
The story begins with the beautiful days of summer in a coffee house. A boy meets girl and soon they fall in love with each other. Though they depressed with their present life but hopeful for the future. And one day they decide that this world is not enough for them and they go away by a motorboat.
And we find a beautiful series of images. The sky, the clouds, the sea, the shore and the sparkling laugh of youth. We can feel everything with this young couple, the sensuality, the laughter and the fear. One day we find that the things go on the wrong way. And they decide to go back their home.
Now the girl Monica is pregnant and after a series of events, where they get married and boy find a job, we find they become a parent of nice baby. This film has two remarkable close-ups in the history of cinema and one is there when the saw his baby first time. We didn't see in that scene instead-of his face. In this long, single-shot close-up you can understand that now everything is going to change.
And soon we find that Monica has no interest in her baby. She is not happy with his married life. She always lives in fantasies and hates the realities and responsibilities of the life. And one day she find her old boy friend and spends her days with with him.
Here we find one more extraordinary close-up. This is the close-up of Monica and she is seeing direct to camera mens we can feel the expression of her eyes and their a cloud of suspicion and uncertainty. After that in one more scene the couple quarreled with each-other and she left her home. In the last scene we find our hero again in front of a mirror in a coffee house like the first scene of the movie.