“Summer with Monika” Analysis and Review: Ingmar Bergman’s Heartbreaking Romantic Film “Summer with Monika” Was His Love Letter to Harriet Andersson
Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika is one of the most heartbreaking romantic films ever. Two working-class teenagers, Harry (Lars Ekborg) and Monika (Harriet Andersson), happen to meet in a cafe and subsequently fall in love. They escape the mundane daily life by quitting jobs and running away to the Stockholm Archipelago. There, they spend the …