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Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career — isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past — Ingmar Bergman’s tenth film was a gentle drift toward true mastery.

While sitting in her dressing room before a big final rehearsal for a production of Swan Lake, troubled prima ballerina Marie (Nilsson, star of Bergman's earlier To Joy) receives a diary in the mail. It was written by her first lover from a few years before, Henrik (Masculin Feminin's Malmsten), and she decides to retreat to the countryside away from her current boyfriend (Kjellin) after a technical glitch puts the rehearsal on hold. There she remembers the events and experiences them through her beloved's eyes in flashbacks, showing how she went from an optimistic young lover to a more jaded, wounded soul in the present.

This early film by the legendary Swedish master focuses on the nostalgia that grips the heart after a loved one is lost and the pain that inevitably comes with it. Bergman completed the film in 1951, after he apparently spent a couple of years working on adapting a short story he wrote about a girl he once fell in love with.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
Country: Sweden
Genre: Drama, Romance

BD50 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC 4:3 | 01:36:09 | 26.4 Gb + 6.06 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Svenska
Subtitles: English

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