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...anyone imagines that the export of The Sorceress, One Summer of Happiness, and Ingrid Bergman has emptied the Scandinavian fleshpots, he has only to go to the Brattle and taste Smiles of a Summer Night...
Director Ingmar Bergman has succeeded in giving Smiles of a Summer Night a gay, satirical flavour which at times is all that saves it, for not all the characters act as well as Ulla Jacobson and Harriet Anderson look. What is most disappointing is Bergman's failure to make the most of his material, since many tiresome moments could be redeemed with more candid photography. The best performances are given by Bjornstrand and by Naima Wifstrand, who plays an aged courtesan with charm and familiarity...
...Sixth Happiness. Ingrid Bergman brings religion to the heathen Chinee, and the customers get a massive (2 hr. 37 min.) helping of highly flavored but somewhat indigestible missionary stew...
Married. Ingrid Bergman, 42, cinemactress; and Swedish Impresario Lars Schmidt, 45; she for the third time, he for the second; in London...
Then the Japanese attack, and for the rest of the movie, Bergman drifts among the battles like a montage of Brünnhilde and Florence Nightingale-until she turns, toward the end, into Mrs. Moses, and marches about 100 motherless children across miles of rugged country, through the enemy's lines, to safety with the Chinese forces...