Frid: Do you see little one? The summer night is smiling.
Petra: So you’re a poet too.
Frid: The summer night has three smiles. This is the first between midnight and dawn, when young lovers open their hearts and loins. Look there! On the horizon there is a smile so soft you have to be very quiet and watchful to see it at all.
Petra: Young lovers.
Frid: Did that move you, my little pet?
Petra: Why have I never been a young lover? Can you tell me that?
Frid: My dear girl…console yourself. There are few young lovers in this world. You could almost count them. Love has smitten them both as a gift and a punishment.
Petra: And the rest of us?
Frid: The rest of us. (chuckles)
Petra: What becomes of us?
Frid: We invoke love, call out to it, cry for it, beg for it, try to mimic it. We think we own it and tell lies about it.
Petra: But we don’t have it.
Frid: No, my sugar pie. We are denied the love of loving. We don’t have the gift.
Petra: Nor the punishment.
Frid: Nor the punishment.
Frid: Now follows the second smile of the summer night. For the jesters, the fools…and the incorrigible.
Petra: Then she must be smiling at us.
Frid: Would you like a beer?
Petra: Then she is smiling at us, I said!
Frid: Correct. She is smiling at us.
Petra: Do you want to marry me?
Frid: (Laughs out loud)
Petra: But an hour ago you said you wanted to!
Frid: That was then!
Petra: YOU WILL MARRY ME!
Frid: You’re a strong little sugar plum!
Petra: YOU WILL MARRY ME! YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL!
Petra: And the summer night smiled for the third time!
Frid: Oh, yes, my sugar plum, for the sad and dejected, for the sleepless and the lost souls, for the frightened and the lonely.
Smiles of a Summer Night is a famous comedy by Bergman. The parts I enjoyed the most are the dialogues between the servants – Petra the maid and Frid the Groom (the folks on the poster). Spent a considerable amount of time at work trying to find the scripts (don’t tell the boss) but it seems they didn’t make the ‘Memorable Quotes’ list anywhere. I thought I’d go put them here anyway. Hope some of you will enjoy it as much as I did.
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I'll tell the boss if you don't lend me your copy of this film! :|
thers a little reference to a swedish movie in one of Satyajit Ray's films... cant remember the name... i have that one if you are interested. Barter?
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