Directed by Ingmar Bergman   Monika

 

Wednesday, June 11

7:30pm & 9:15pm

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New 35mm Print! The impulsive Monika (Harriet Andersson, in her first of nine Ingmar Bergman films) and the unsophisticated Harry (Lars Ekborg) flee dead-end jobs in dreary Stockholm for a carnal island summer. But as fall approaches, so do pregnancy and hunger, and the young lovers are forced to return to the real world and its disappointments. Luridly retitled Monika: The Story of a Bad Girl for release on the US exploitation circuit ("Naughty and nineteen! The Devil controls her by radar!" flyers blared), Bergman's early masterpiece was ignored by the Times and other respectable papers. But championed by French critics, Monika became deeply influential for the New Wave and helped cement Bergman's status as one of cinema's true visionaries.  Sweden, 1953, 96 minutes. In Swedish with English subtitles

 

Curated by Dylan Skolnick

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