It's, I'm sure, an overused staple in Drama or Romance today; here, it is used to great avail, and it is the strongest part of the film. Maybe so, but I didn't care for how it was presented. Some of the film's best visuals include a bleak white sky that only a black silhouette of the protagonist can be made out walking against, and a couple of excellent montages: one being the opening shots of slight movements in clouds, in a river and of rubbish on a footpath; the other being a montage of steam, skies and water as a boat sails along. That makes them feel the need to show off and to be something more. His characters are often pathetic and deep. The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they each wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage. Join here. Blasieholmen, Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden, What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. She travels by ferry to an island nearby Stockholm, where she recalls her first love Henrik. This Ingmar Bergman's earlier essay is a dedicative recount of a young ballerina's summer holiday puppy romance with a timid college student which culminated in a tragic accident and the narrative leaps between the reminiscent past and the present (13 years later, when she is preparing her SWAN LAKE premier). First things first - All the 4 Bergmans I've watched till now were so heavily drenched in existentialism or religion or God and given the mood, I was in today, I deliberately chose to watch a lighter Bergman and it turned out that even his so-called light film is heavier than many heavy ones out there! All-in-all, Summer Interlude is instrumental to the lyrical flow of various themes recurring in Bergman's oeuvre and there are some uncanny references to his later works, be it, the blocking of characters and Gunnar Fischer's (one of Bergman's constants before Sven Nykvist) framing on the island scenes that went on to be called Bergmanesque in scenes of many other films as well, or, a scene in which Marie takes Henrik to eat "Wild Strawberries", or, The Seventh Seal-esque chess scene in which Henrik's grandmother gets referred to as "death" and mentions that she should have died three months ago according to the doctor, or, the entire theme of art as an escape/introspection reminded me of the Knight from The Seventh Seal whose sadness gets cured while living with the artists amidst a pandemic. "We're 28, and the younger girls call us 'ma'am'". Although, we suspect, the wall may not have fully achieved this aim, it has succeeded in preventing her from truly making contact with the world, and, those who love her from ever reaching her. Sjoberg's direction is impressive with much use of expressionist shadows and angles. Search for "Summer Interlude" on Amazon.com, Title: Looking for something to watch? A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover’s old diary. Summer Interlude While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Marie receives a diary through the mail.