Word: dahlbeck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third vignette fits awkwardly into the picture's symbolism and shows, too, that Bergman's best comic effort (which this probably is) tends to the lumbering side. Couple trapped in elevators hardly ever are very funny, and this particular twosome (Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck) aren't worth even as many laughs as a Berle kinescope...
BRATTLE: through tomorrow: Rosemary, the story of a West German tart who takes an unusual interest in her client's lives. Stars Nadja Tiller and Curt Jurgens. Starts Sunday: Ingmar Bergman's early (1952) episodic comedy, Secrets of Women, is funny indeed. It stars the usual Bergman repertoire--Eva Dahlbeck, Anita Bjork, Gunnar Bjornstrand...
...best of the confessions involves the superb farceurs of Smiles and Lessons. Gunnar Bjornstrand, tall, reserved, marinated in dignity, is a corporation president, and pillowy, blonde Eva Dahlbeck is his wife. Coming home from a formal-dress party, they get stuck in a self-service elevator. Frantically he stays calm. She laughs. He rages. She twits him about his reserve: is he that way with his mistresses? He blusters, then grows suspicious: has she had lovers? "Of course," she says prettily. The lights go out; she clutches at him; his top hat is mashed. The lights go on; she mocks...
Simplicity is the greatest virtue of the plot: a young fashion model, Doris (Harriett Andersson) and her boss, Suzanne Brown (Eva Dahlbeck), journey from Stockholm to Gothenberg, the former to get away from her cloying fiance and the latter to try to renew a once torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot chocolate with whipped cream; he quietly retches...
...only where the illusion of love is absent. The characteristically expressive acting typical of Bergman's more or less regular troupe serves to illustrate the theme. Miss Andresson's versatile transformation from the tomboy of A Lesson in Love to the model in Dreams is particularly noteworthy, and Miss Dahlbeck exhibits control like very few actresses around...