The Bigger Picture film club ? ?Smiles of a Summer Night? (1955) at East Dulwich Tavern on 18 August

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The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Smiles of a Summer Night? (1955) at 8pm on Thursday, 18 August 2016, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern.

An exquisite romantic comedy in which six individuals find love during an endless summer night.

One of cinema?s greatest erotic comedies, Smiles of a Summer Night ushered Bergman onto the international scene. A film about infidelity and desire set in the early 1900s, it centres around Fredrik Engerman (Gunnar Bjornstrand) a middle-aged lawyer whose 19 year old wife Anne (Ulla Jacobsson) refuses to consummate their marriage. He decides to confide in a former mistress, Desir?e (Eva Dahlbeck). Meanwhile Frederik?s son from his first marriage is in love with his stepmother. Over the course of an endless northern summer night, the feelings of the protagonists boil over into seduction, flirtation, deception and adultery. With an air of French farce the film is not entirely without elements of darkness so typical of Bergman, but these are transcended by the smiles of the title.

Director/Writer: Ingmar Bergman with Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bibi Andersson

Sweden 108 minutes. Cert PG. All tickets ?7.

Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm.

Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/351055

The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/

The Bigger Picture Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic?ref=tn_tnmn

Location:

Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern

1 Lordship Lane

London SE22 8EW

Rail: East Dulwich;

Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484

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Tickets will be available on the door for the film tonight, so you can just come along!