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SMILEY FACES

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Ingmar Bergman's

Sommarnattens leende / Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

There are three smiles to a summer night but there are four romances in this first Bergman hit. A romantic comedy.

It was the basis for the Broadway musical A Little Night Music.

In an brief introductory interview, he says that, after this film, he had a virtual blank check for his productions.

I have seen it a few times and would not mind seeing it again. It is a classic that never fades. Funny and wise and sometimes irredeemably hard hearted in its point of view about life and love.

I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5.

Labels: best films