A Lesson in Love

A Lesson in Love (original title En lektion i kärlek), written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, opened on October 4, 1954, as a Swedish comedy about a gynecologist and his wife, on the verge of divorce after fifteen years of marriage and mutual infidelities, confronting unresolved loves during a trip to Copenhagen. It stars Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Björnstrand. The film is considered a warm up for Bergman's comedy masterpiece Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), made the following year, which carried over the same two lead actors. The film holds a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. Who it's for: anyone curious about an early Swedish marriage comedy that functioned as a rehearsal for a director's comedy masterpiece the following year, sharing the same lead actors. Who it's not for: viewers expecting the tone of Bergman's later, darker existential period, since this is a lighthearted comedy.