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Summer With Monika (Sommaren med Monika) (Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl) [Region 0]

Harriet Andersson (Actor, Host), Åke Fridell (Actor, Host), Ingmar Bergman (Director, Host) Rated:
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4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
IMDb7.5/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format Import, Subtitled, PAL
Contributor Lars Ekborg, John Harryson, Dagmar Ebbesen, Sigge Fürst, Harriet Andersson, Åke Grönberg, Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl, Naemi Briese, Summer With Monica, Summer With Monica ( Sommaren med Monika ) ( Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl ), Åke Fridell, Sommaren med Monika, Ingmar Bergman See more
Language Swedish
Runtime 92 minutes
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Swedish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Production Notes, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Harry Lund, 19 years old, works at a stock-room for glass and porcelain. In the vicinity works 17 year old Monika at a stock-room for vegetables. Monika is a cheerful and happy young woman and when she sees Harry at a cafe she starts to talk with him. They fall in love with each other. Because of their age, they are both harassed at their respective places of work. Monika has an argument with her father and leaves her home, Harry has an argument with his boss and quits. Since they have nothing that ties them to the city, they take Harry's small boat to the archipelago to be alone for a few weeks. ...Summer With Monica ( Sommaren med Monika ) ( Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl )

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Ingmar Bergman
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Import, Subtitled, PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 92 minutes
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Harriet Andersson, Åke Fridell, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Naemi Briese
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Summer With Monica ( Sommaren med Monika ) ( Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl ), Summer With Monica, Sommaren med Monika, Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Swedish (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Tartan Video
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000F2SDCK
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 135 ratings

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circumspect
5.0 out of 5 stars Important work
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
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Entertaining while giving insight into relations with mommy daddy issues respectively
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mike mcnaulty
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have For Ingmar Bergman Fans.
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2023
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Sumner With Monika is a very good example of a coming of age film however if you're looking for humor like the kind you'd find in a John Hughes 1980's coming of age film then you won't find it here and I didn't expect to.
The story is centered around two kids in their late teens Monika a girl with a local reputation of being "a floosy" and a party girl and her boyfriend Harry who is reserved and shy. They are both dissatisfied with their personal lives. Monika with both her job and home life and Harry mainly with his job.
They decide to remedy these problems by sneaking off in a boat owned by Harry's uncle to a small island where they spend the summer together. At first it's all sunshine and fun as they revel in each other's company but soon things begin to take a turn for the worse. The food and other supplies they brought with them begin to dwindle and Monika becomes pregnant. It's interesting in that you would think her becoming pregnant would bring them closer together but it's just the opposite as Monika begins to display anger and contempt towards Harry who wants to marry her and return to their town and get a job and provide for her and the baby.
They eventually return home and Monika has a baby girl but really shows no true feelings for the child while Harry does.
Weeks pass and Harry returns home after being out of town on a job and much to his shock finds her in bed with a man they both know(Please note you don't actually see them in bed but only the looks on Harry's face as he enters their apartment and stops dead in his tracks as to what he is seeing.) Monika eventually turns her back on the child and Harry and he is left to raise their daughter.
Monika true colors are now fully revealed as being a selfish floosy who is only truly concerned about herself and her own indulgences.
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J. Klausmeyer
4.0 out of 5 stars Embryonic Bergman
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2021
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Released in 1953, this is the first Bergman movie that begins to take on the appearance and themes of his later classic films. The use of a remote mostly uninabited area and limited cast for the middle part of the movie is similar in look and feel to Bergman's 1960s films made on the Island of Farö. Harriet Anderson's acting (she was not yet 20 when the film was made) is almost a rehearsal for her performance in Through A Glass Darkly... the deconstruction of a female character, in this film from willful selfishness, in TAGD due to mental illness. The final section of the film reminded me of Scenes From A Marriage... in some ways more compelling because Monika and Harry are working class and struggling to get by-- in SFAM, the characters are all upper middle class professionals, so for all of their personal trauma they still have the conforts that their income and social status confer. And, as pointed out in other reviews, the character of Harry might be Bergman's most sympathetic male character. As in all of Bergman's films up to the late 1960s, there the black and white photography is great. So, although not quite as sophisticated as his subsequent films, it's still worth a watch for any Bergman fan.

As with all Criterion Collection films, the quality is excellent (digital restoration), as are the extra features-- an introduction by Bergman, an interview with Harriet Anderson, a short documentary about how Monika was re-edited for release in the US in the 1950s as an expoitation film, and a documentary about Bergman called "Scenes from the Playground."
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Robert Strecker
5.0 out of 5 stars an important early Bergman film
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2018
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This is the ultimate anti-romance movie. I feel it has a type of sarcasm within that is uniquely Bergman. Harriet Andersons character is wonderfully developed as the run of the mill inner city youth desperately trying to hang on to a model of youthful romance while at the same time already in the process of rapidly fading into low sector adult life.
This film is darkly comedic while at the same time being super dramatic because Bergman pulls the right strings in relation to problems every young male or female goes through. This film makes the ultimate case for romantic love being material. I have always felt the Beckett play Waiting for Godot had a similar theme inside a larger framework.
I remember being young and broke and desperately trying to keep a romance while always competing with older guys that had cars or more material items.
I really had a bittersweet compassion for both of these characters as i feel they represent all youth growing up with additional stress factors brought on by lower sector life.
As epitomized in Cries + Whispers Harriet Anderson never fails to deliver an outstanding performance.
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WKT
3.0 out of 5 stars Short, sour summer!
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2012
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Big fan of the Ingmar Bergman body of work which contains some to the greatest films in cinematic history! Films which set the benchmark and inspired no doubt thousands of budding directors. This is one of his works that I just never got around to watching. I really don't know how it escaped me. It is famous in its own right for inspiring what any Baby Boomer will remember as the "risqué foreign film". Well having watched it I found very little to like. A disjointed, depressing story (nothing new to a Bergman film) but even more disheartening--a poorly developed character study. Lars, the boy, is the only sympathetic character in the film. Beyond the two main characters we don't get to know anyone else in this story to any depth at all. The summer on the island is but a very brief part of the story--and it didn't seem to be all that happy and carefree as touted to be. The film is described as "sensual" and one of Bergman's most important films! I simply can't agree. Compared to a film such a "The Silence" which is admittedly a difficult film to watch is nevertheless just packed to the brim with character development, tension, and sensuality. But in then I suppose you would just have to watch it yourself and form your own opinion.
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starlightspacelab
5.0 out of 5 stars A love which lasted one summer long.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2013
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Another sheer beautiful Bergman film which cuts the strings of your heart. Young beautiful Monika seduces young Harry in a pub while asking for a match for her cigarette. This is the start of a relationship which lasts all summer long. They spent the entire summer on the small boat of his father and enjoy themselves. While they do they make plans for the future : Harry will combine studying and work and Monika will stay at home to take care of the baby girl June because the gets pregnant during their summer love vacation. Not long after being married she gets bored and she complaints more often because the rent is not going to be paid and she needs new clothes. SPOILER ALERT : When Harry comes home from work from Stockholm he finds out that Monika has been cheating on him and in the end she leaves him. Thus mot a happy ending however a sheer beautiful Bergman film about love and how fragile love is : it can arise before summer and dissapear afterwards. Highest possible recommendation.
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KG
4.0 out of 5 stars For many, Bergman's breakthrough film
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2012
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The first half recalls Bergman's earlier 'Summer Interlude'. But the
second half goes further and explores the 'what if' of the summer
romance between teens; moving into parenthood, marriage, and
disillusionment.

The acting is excellent, and unlike 'Summer Interlude' these actors
look close to the naïve age they're playing.

The film's point of view sometimes felt a bit one sided to me with 'bad
girl' Monika, from a crude, poor family, less willing to extend herself
than her upper-class boyfriend Harry. Of course, along with being
selfish she is also the more complex and fascinating character,
especially as played by the young Harriet Andersson.

Some critics make the argument - with merit - that the film doesn't
judge Monika,the audience does. Indeed, it could be argued that the
film is meant to make us question our own judgment of a poor girl who
is brought up with dreams of marriage as a glamorous escape, and not
just a humdrum existence. It's not for nothing the heroine is obsessed
with Hollywood love stories.

Andersson's performance may be the first of the many hyper-real and
extremely complex characters in Bergman's body of work, transcending
'type' and moral judgment.

The film was beloved by the French New wave filmmakers, who saw in it's
complex attitude (and very brief nudity) a throwing off of the shackles
of conventional characters and storytelling.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Monika's personality
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2023
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Excellent story and acting.
In spite of its age this is still most enjoyable.
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Lindosland
5.0 out of 5 stars I like films like this that tell us about the human condition
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2017
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I bought this as Melvyn Bragg mentions it in his autobiographical novel 'A Son of War' as having made a big impression on him when he first saw it as a young student. I like films that tell us about the human condition, and I like this one, which is the sort of film that could have helped me to understand how love affairs can go painfully wrong, perhaps preparing me better for some of my real-life struggles! It's one of those films which I think should be shown in schools, as part of an education for life - others are 'The Go Between', 'She's Been Away', 'Kes', 'Waterland'. Sadly they seem to be being left behind in this age of action movies and animations, and are often hard to get and not available on streaming sites or as Blu Rays.
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andrea
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good film
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2023
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Excellent copy with subtitles for the deaf.
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