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...Lesson in Love (Svensk Filmindustri; Janus), the most natural, robust and heartily funny of Ingmar Bergman's comedies, is for the most part a riskily sophisticated satire on the tiny, interminable adventures of any Dagwood and every Blondie. Made in 1953, two years before Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night summed up his ironic discussion of the domestic predicament, A Lesson in Love lacks the assurance and allegoric precision of that picture. Instead it is warm, accidental, lifelike, full of lucky hits, preposterous misses, and all sorts of surprises. A comedy of morals as well as manners...
...Magician (Svensk Filmindustri; Janus) is the latest public fantasy of Sweden's famed Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, whose last two exports to the U.S.. Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal, won hosannas in the art houses. Like them, The Magician pleases the eye and agitates the mind. But drifting with its phantasms is no easy matter, and many a moviegoer is likely, instead, to drift right out of the theater...