This was Bergman's first "comedy" featuring a gynecologist and his wife who are preparing to divorce. Marianne was going to marry David's best friend, Carl-Adam, but on the day of the wedding changed her mind and married David instead. After 16 years of marriage David has an affair with Susanne, and Marianne decides to go back to Carl-Adam. David tries to convince her to reconcile, and it all ends happily.
David and Marianne have two children. "Nix" is their 15-year-old daughter, who interestingly is played by Harriet Andersson, who in a previous movie, "Summer with Monika" played a rebellious, seductive 18-year-old. Here she is a tom-boy who plays a realistic 15 year old.
"A lesson in love" is not slap-stick comedy. It is cute and clever in places, which brought smiles to my face. But not Bergman's best effort.
David and Marianne have two children. "Nix" is their 15-year-old daughter, who interestingly is played by Harriet Andersson, who in a previous movie, "Summer with Monika" played a rebellious, seductive 18-year-old. Here she is a tom-boy who plays a realistic 15 year old.
"A lesson in love" is not slap-stick comedy. It is cute and clever in places, which brought smiles to my face. But not Bergman's best effort.