Word: ulla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is probably in the novel and becomes grating only when it actually has to be seen on the screen. Marina Vlady is properly wistful and ineffectual as Lili, the embodiment of the beautiful soul who becomes a prostitute to feed the family which her stepfather has deserted, and Ulla Jacobssen is excellent in the less demanding role of Nicole Brunel, Rene's sister...
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...
...Arne Mattsfon has paced the movie with restrained acceleration, so that the swimming scene comes as an appropriate consummation of the romance. In the role of Goren, Folk Sundquist seemed somewhat too coarse-looking, but nevertheless engineered beautifully his gradual change from urban callousness to rural purity. As Kirsten, Ulla Jacobsson looked and acted like a young Ingrid Bergman...
...Summer of Happiness (Times Film). "Say, let's swim!" cries Goran (Folk Sundquist). He is alone with Kerstin in the woods near the edge of a lake, and the day is as warm as days ever get in Sweden. Kerstin (Ulla Jacobsson), who is only 17, dimples and looks away, but then she says, "For you I'm not bashful." They undress and run laughing and gasping into the icy shallows. The laughter dies on Goran's lips as he sees her standing there, pretty as a pear. "Kerstin!" he says. She turns toward hirn with...
...this childishly rebellious business about young love and old prejudices. The horse it flogs was flogged to death by North European intellectuals half a century and more ago; in modern Sweden unwed mothers are paid a state subsidy for the support of their children. Sadder still to report, little Ulla Jacobsson, who behaves so exquisitely with her clothes off, cannot act very well when she has them...