Wednesday, June 20th at 8:30pm

(Sommaren med Monika, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 1953, 96 min., 35mm, Swedish w/subtitles)

Youth in Love. The first Bergman feature released in the United States, this is one of the key films that contributed to the image of European cinema as a more artistic and challenging counterpart to Hollywood. In her first work with Bergman, Harriet Andersson leaves an indelible impression as an adolescent temptress who takes off with an errand boy (Lars Ekborg) on a whimsical escapade, and walks out in boredom, leaving him to care for their child. This escape from the drudgery of working-class Stockholm to the Swedish countryside pays homage to Italian Neorealism and anticipates the French New Wave.