My first Bergman teen film - because that's what it is, really, a melodrama teen film about two youngsters whose parents want to break up their romance so they head off to an island and live an idyllic existence for a time, until reality comes crashing back in when they start worrying about food and the girl gets pregnant.
A simple story, very well done with two excellent performances from the leads, particuarly Harriet Andersson. David Shipman wrote that the movie was misogynist, which I didn't feel at first, but the end of it does seem that way, with the poor guy just trying to make a living while his tramp of a woman (who up til then had just been high spirited and engging) can't resist c*ck.
The photography is beautiful and poetic, the story compelling for the most part, the direction deft. This is what the adaptation of The Delinquents should have been more like.
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