Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...melancholy films, Bergman actually began his career by making comedies. One of these, "Smiles of a Summer Night," which was released in December of 1955, became Bergman's breakthrough film. Many critics have seen it as the culmination of Bergman's so-called "rose period," during which he made lighter-hearted films. Ostensibly a comedy of manners, "Smiles of a Summer Night" stars Gunnar Bjornstrand as Fredrik Egerman, a successful middle-aged lawyer whose second wife is the virginal 18-year-old Anne (Ulla Jacobsson). As Anne rebuffs Egerman's physical advances, Egerman turns to the actress Desiree Armfeldt...
...Smiles of a Summer Night" has many funny moments, and the film feels lighter than many of Bergman's other works. However, in true Bergmanesque fashion, the comedy is laced with tragedy and pathos. The epigrams, though elegant and humorous, are capable of wounding. While the characters comply with the structure of a comedy of manners by affirming love and happy endings, they consistently undercut the same structure with theri realization of the futility of all sentiments, most especialy love. The film ends with all the participants coupled, but this highly conventional resolution, required in all classic boudoir farces...
Since the middle ages, the Jester hat has been a rollicking reminder of life's lighter side. Also known as the fool, the Jester was an often deformed or dwarfed comic entertainer whose idiocy, whether real or cleverly affected, provided amusement for exalted members of the medieval court. According to the Dictionary of the Middle Ages," the fool's cap consisted of a single "horn" or several (usually three) floppy peaks, each capped with bells, pom poms, bangles or tippets. The hat provided the Jester with the means to successfully complete his mission of insult, flattery, and buffoonery...
...impression of Carpenter as an intense, principle person, is incomplete; Carpenter has a lighter side too, an amusing side, as his senior roommate Eric S. O'Brien reveals...
...Manfred Worner, or Yeltsin. They're the bigwigs," snapped Asha, cleaning his pipe. Pause. "As far as we're concerned, from now on, the only person worth turning to is Yeltsin. Maybe later on it'll be Zhirinovsky," concluded Asha, frantically trying to light his pipe with a lighter that had the U.N. insignia on it. No go. I guess there wasn't any flint left...