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		There weren’t many children, but every summer, they shipped the few of us up the mountains to Northern Pennsylvania for church camp.
		From ages 10 to 16, we would be grouped into cabins and assembled for Orthodox mass in between kickball and lunch.
		One summer, when I was 14, I had a thing with a tall, blue-eyed boy, and the match was looked on so approvingly that by the time camp was over, I cried for hours because, how will I be able to wait until next year to demonstrate my eternal love through fl and red embroidery?
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	WAG: Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night
		WAG: Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night
		After Smiles of a Summer Night, his stories are darker, his themes more openly existential, and his visual style becomes less crowded.
		Smiles of a Summer Night is thus a languid comedic gem to linger on not only because it is a seemingly perfect comedy, but because it stands as a transition marker in Bergman’s growth as a director.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Smiles of a Summer Night at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SMILES ON A SUMMER NIGHT: bitter-sweet farce involving eight people thrown together on Midsummer's Night, one of most influential films in the last half of the 20th Century.
		The climax of the film occurs on Midsummer's Night, the summer solstice, when traditionally in Northern Europe, people celebrate the fragile glory of sunlight and love, on the longest day of the year.
		SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT is a French farce told by a Swede.
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	Smiles Of A Summer Night Movie, Review, Cast for Smiles Of A Summer Night \| TVGuide.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT is set in turn-of-the-century Sweden and takes place primarily at an old country estate, where love permeates the summer air.
		As a result of the scheming of actress Desiree Armfeldt (Eva Dahlbeck), a group of former, present, and would-be lovers gathers at her mother's country home, including Desiree's one-time lover Fredrik Egerman (G...
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	The Criterion Collection: Smiles of a Summer Night
		After fifteen films of mostly local acclaim, the 1956 prize-winning comedy Smiles of a Summer Night at last ushered in an international audience for director Ingmar Bergman.
		Chock full of flirtatious propositions and sharp-witted wisdom delivered by such legends of the Swedish screen as Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, and Ulla Jacobsson, Smiles of a Summer Night is one of film history's great tragicomedies, a bittersweet view of the transience of human carnality.
		Smiles of a Summer Night is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=237 (342 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Smiles on a Summer Night
		THE SUMMER NIGHT has three smiles: one for the young, one for the fools and one for the old.
		To the twinkle of harp music, the night forgives all: the ignorance of youth, the meddlesomeness of elders, the folly of the misguided.
		Part of the problem is, of course, the weakness of the voices--notably those in the chorus, which appears on stage with annoying regularity to remind the leads of the power of memory.
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	Smiles of a Summer Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Smiles of a Summer Night (Swedish: Sommarnattens leende) is a 1955 film directed by Ingmar Bergman.
		It was re-written as a musical A Little Night Music, which opened on Broadway in 1973.
		It was part of Time's 100 greatest list.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smiles_of_a_Summer_Night (108 words)

	A Little Night Music
		The summer night smiles three times, a wise old woman tells her granddaughter in A Little Night Music -- once at the young, who know nothing; once at fools, who know too little; and once at the old, who know too much.
		But the summer night must be smiling a fourth time this season, at the people at the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, who have known enough to make their production of A Little Night Music the glorious event it is.
		But the summer night smiles on all the fools and all the lovers, and before evening's end just about every one of them has seen life turn for the good.
	www.shakespearefest.org /a_little_night_music.htm (1944 words)

	Smiles Of A Summer Night (1955) - Channel 4 Film review
		A quintessential Bergman comedy of manners, Smiles Of A Summer Night has several couples spend a weekend in a country house with often amusing and always revealing results.
		Smiles of a Summer Night's accessibility and immediacy make it a sitting target for a Hollywood remake.
		Smiles Of A Summer Night proves that there is plenty more to Ingmar Bergman than misery and melancholia.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=108449 (251 words)

	Smiles of a Summer Night Movie: Smiles of a Summer Night DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Smiles of a Summer Night Movie: Smiles of a Summer Night DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Set on a country estate at the turn of the century, it features eight people, including an actress, a sophisticated aristocratic couple, a lawyer and his virginal wife, and a spirited young maid who, during the course of one evening, change partners several times and engage in multiple romantic trysts.
		SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT inspired Stephen Sondheim's stage musical A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and its subsequent cinematic adaptation.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Smiles of a Summer Night: The Criterion Collection
		A mutt of a farce, Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), the Swedish auteur's most enjoyable work, is the careful (was Bergman ever anything but?) blending of numerous influences ranging from Shakespeare to Mozart to Moliere to, it would appear, the sophisticated screwball comedies of Ernst Lubitsch.
		For the most part, though, Bergman's approach is purely theatrical in the writing, with three clearly defined acts of mounting sexual complications culminating in a payoff that winds up a live round short of adding Chekhov to its dramatic ancestry.
		The Criterion Collection presents Smiles of a Summer Night in a superb full-frame transfer (1.33:1) with Dolby Digital 1.0 audio.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/smilesofasummernight_cc.q.shtml (660 words)

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		Smiles of a Summer Night By Maria Szabo Disclaimer: the settings and characters of X belong to CLAMP, their publishers and their respective distributers.
		The title "Smiles of a Summer Night" is a tribute to the 1956 film by Ingmar Bergman and no infringement of his rights or those of his distributors is intended either.
		He followed the same procedure for the other two balls, and handed her the prize with a smile.
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	EUFS: Smiles of a Summer Night (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The film deals with the liaisons between several couples as they move in different and rather unpredictable stages during their erotic games.
		The setting is a country house party in the midsummer of 1900 and if it already sounds familiar it's because the whole thing was reinterpreted rather dully, in Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy.
		Bergman examines pitilessly - in what could have been a Buñuelian treatment - the characters of the story irrespective of whether they're men or women.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/smiles_of_a_summer_night.html (283 words)

	Goodspeed Musicals 2003 - Past Productions - 2001 - A Little Night Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She spent this summer at the Sacramento Music Circus where she was seen as Lucinda in INTO THE WOODS, and also appeared in ANNIE and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
		Not only did Bergman direct but he also wrote the screenplay to SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT to prove to some of his critics that he wasn’t quite “the sourpuss that they had portrayed him to be.” At Cannes Film Festival the picture even won the prize for Best Poetic Humor.
		SUMMER NIGHT’s young seminarian Henrik could even be the young Bergman himself -- caught between his desire and his moral code.
	www.goodspeed.org /past_productions/2001/night.htm (3755 words)

	Smiles of a Summer Night
		After fifteen films of mostly local acclaim, the 1956 prize-winning comedy Smiles of a Summer Night at last ushered in an international audience for director Ingmar Bergman.
		When a weekend in the country brings them all face to face, the women ally to force the men's hands in their matters of the heart, exposing their pretentions and insecurities along the way.
		Chock full of flirtatious propositions and sharp-witted wisdom delivered by such legends of the Swedish screen as Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, and Ulla Jacobsson, Smiles of a Summer Night is one of film history's great tragicomedies, a bittersweet view of the transience of human carnality
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReview2/smilesofasummernight.htm (270 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
		Bergman's dreamy, lyrical effect was influenced by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and went on to further influence the Bergman-obsessed A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), directed by Woody Allen.
		Bergman was already tentatively courting actress Bibi Andersson who was promised a part in Smiles which eventually amounted to a tiny part as another actress on stage with Desiree during a scene in the Stockholm theater.
		Smiles of a Summer Night was a remarkable success at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival in keeping with Bergman's prediction that "I thought it was time for a box-office success, and though everyone disagreed with me, I was convinced that this picture would succeed."
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article/?cid=29921 (841 words)

	Opera at Peabody - A Little Night Music
		Three Smiles for Sondheim: Director Roger Brunyate looks again at Ingmar Bergman’s comic masterpiece of 1955, Smiles of a Summer Night.
		Besides noting its close influence on Hugh Wheeler’s screenplay for A Little Night Music, he suggests that Stephen Sondheim’s musical concept of the work may be a tribute to Bergman’s inherent musicality as a film-maker.
		The echoes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream are not confined to the title, for the movie breathes the same enchanted air as Shakespeare’s comedy.
	www.peabodyopera.org /seasons/s0506/nightmusic06 (517 words)

	BBC - collective - Smiles of a Summer Night [Ingmar Bergman, 1955]
		BBC - collective - Smiles of a Summer Night [Ingmar Bergman, 1955]
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	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A1166564 (347 words)

	Conversation with Stanley Cavell, p. 4 of 6
		And that was, while I was working on my Ph.D. dissertation, I was, after months and months of writing day and night on that and teaching classes, I decided to let myself, because I was stuck, go to a film.
		But the effect, in particular, that Smiles of a Summer Night had on me was that I went back to my pathetic digs and wrote about Smiles of a Summer Night all night long, when I should have been trying to add a couple of pages to my dissertation.
		And after a night of that, I had, I don't know, some thousands of words, none of which I ever published; but that was the moment at which I recognized something that I've known about the other arts since before I could talk.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people2/Cavell/cavell-con4.html (1812 words)

	JFS Smiles of a Summer Night (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Smiles of a Summer Night is one of Bergman's few comedies.
		A game of love at a country house party set over a midsummer weekend in 1900, this film was his first major success and was the inspiration for Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music and Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy.
		Bergman is better known for dramatic subjects, but here he produces an enchanting comedy of manners and shows a face few are accustomed to seeing.
	www.mnlg.com /jfs/archive_R/00_smiles.html (112 words)

	Smiles of a Summer Night
		Men, as a gender, do not come off well in Bergman's charming sex comedy Smiles of a Summer Night, made only one year before his breakthrough hit, The Seventh Seal.
		At the centre of the film is Frederik Egerman (Gunnar Bjonstrand) pompous and self-assured as a lawyer but insecure and frightened by competition as a lover.
		Smiles of a Summer Night came as quite a surprise to me, being used to the philosophical Bergman of Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal (yet always with an added bit of humour).
	www.talkingpix.co.uk /ReviewsSmilesofSummerNight.html (595 words)

	A Little Night Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.
		Based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, the play tells the story of a lawyer, Fredrik Egerman, who is married to a very young wife, Anne, who, despite the fact that they have been married almost a year, is still a virgin.
		In 1978, a film version of A Little Night Music was made, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down, and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Little_Night_Music (1214 words)

	Aisle Say (Boston): A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
		The Lyric Stage Company is kicking off their 31st season by revisiting Steven Sondheim's Tony winning A Little Night Music", Hugh Wheeler's 1973 reimagining of Ingmar Bergman;s classic film, "Smiles of a Summer Night".
		A night out at the theatre triggers Anne's suspicions and sends Fredrik to visit his old flame.
		The choreographer for the show's several waltzes is Lyric regular, IRNE winner Ilyse Robbins, who got onstage herself this summer in "Grease" at Reagle.
	www.aislesay.com /MA-NIGHTMUSIC.html (753 words)

	Smiles of a Summer Night
		Smiles of a Summer Night follows an ensemble cast through the motions of loving and betraying each other.
		The Count is fairly forgettable, as is his wife, but they do get the opportunity to add their share of humor to the mix.
		Like many of his other films Smiles of a Summer Night has plenty of Bergman lingering shots, sometimes drifting between focuses of attention and other times resting at a particularly close range to a character’s face.
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	Smiles of a Summer Night
		• Smiles of a Summer Night at Rotten Tomatoes
		George Clooney goes noir in this tale of a hard-boiled reporter, a dame, and the mystery that envelops them both in post-WWII Berlin.
		Knowles' quest for complete media domination continues with "Dreamgirls," in which she stretches her dramatic wings to play the lead singer of a successful R&B trio.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/smiles_of_a_summer_night/about.php (486 words)

	Sondheim.com - Putting it together since 1994.
		Based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, this musical with a book by Hugh Wheeler, concerns three mismatched couples.
		Almost all of the numbers excited and energized me, and most of the scenes were about as pitch-perfect as you can get.
		I just sat there with a big smile on my face the whole show.
	www.sondheim.com /shows/a_little_night_music (363 words)

	"Smiles of a Summer Night": Ingmar Bergman and Opera Gloves
		"Smiles of a Summer Night": Ingmar Bergman and Opera Gloves
		"Smiles of a Summer Night" was among the first of Ingmar Bergman's films to bring him to international notice.
		In contrast to his reputation as a Nordic prophet of gloom, this movie is actually a fairly sprightly comedy-drama.
	www.operagloves.com /vidcaps/summer.html (130 words)

	DVDFanatic Review: Smiles Of A Summer Night - Criterion Collection
		Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Bergman’s frolicsome romantic comedy influenced by William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is a light and joyous film that has just been released on DVD courtesy of the Criterion Collection.
		Smiles is a must-see for any Bergman follower who has seen and understood his best work and is curious to how he could have made a comedy.
		Bergman cannot make a comedy without making some serious points, but his critique of the characters is not sullen.
	www.dvdfanatic.com /review.php?id=smilessummer (990 words)

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