A Lesson in Love, as the intro tells us, is a comedy for adults. That's true only in the sense that the movie is not a tragedy. It's occasionally witty, and the dialogue at times is clever, but the movie is by no means a laugh-generating piece of cinema.
Overall, this is a middling Bergman film. It's not bad, but it's not great. Overall, I found it rather boring and tedious. The father-daughter relationship is an interesting one, though it is not explored as deeply as it could have been, which was a shame. Instead, the film focuses on the marriage, which appears on its last legs through much of the film, but, as a self-proclaimed comedy from the outset, the movie sets us up to expect a happier ending. To the extent the characters develop as the film progresses, those changes seem more on the implausible side.
If you're looking for a Bergman film, I would not recommend this one. It's really only worth watching if you're having some sort of Ingmar Bergman marathon (which you may be, because this film likely is on your radar in the first place only because of something you picked up from the Criterion Collection).
Overall, this is a middling Bergman film. It's not bad, but it's not great. Overall, I found it rather boring and tedious. The father-daughter relationship is an interesting one, though it is not explored as deeply as it could have been, which was a shame. Instead, the film focuses on the marriage, which appears on its last legs through much of the film, but, as a self-proclaimed comedy from the outset, the movie sets us up to expect a happier ending. To the extent the characters develop as the film progresses, those changes seem more on the implausible side.
If you're looking for a Bergman film, I would not recommend this one. It's really only worth watching if you're having some sort of Ingmar Bergman marathon (which you may be, because this film likely is on your radar in the first place only because of something you picked up from the Criterion Collection).