Port of Call (1948)
(Hamnstad)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Nine-Christine Jönsson, Bengt Eklund, Mimi Nelson
Synopsis:
A sailor returns after years spent overseas and determines to settle down. He meets a girl at a dancehall but has no inkling that she has had a chequered love life and been in reformatory.
Review:
Though he might wonder why she goes to bed with him so readily... This drama dealt with post-war societal issues so frankly that it earned itself an 'X' certificate in the UK: there is frank discussion of extra-marital sex, casual nudity and an ambivalent attitude to backstreet abortions. The circumstances of the girl's battle-scarred upbringing is broadly sketched, with a typically diabolical mother figure for Bergman, ever to be trusted to deliver a dysfunctional family portrait; at the same time, modern viewers may find it remarkable that the state had the write to circumscribe the heroine's freedom to the extent that it does here. However, the acting is first-rate, particularly Jönsson, a curiously squat and barrel-chested beauty, and the realism of the settings and secondary characters a fascinating watch.
(Hamnstad)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Nine-Christine Jönsson, Bengt Eklund, Mimi Nelson
Synopsis:
A sailor returns after years spent overseas and determines to settle down. He meets a girl at a dancehall but has no inkling that she has had a chequered love life and been in reformatory.
Review:
Though he might wonder why she goes to bed with him so readily... This drama dealt with post-war societal issues so frankly that it earned itself an 'X' certificate in the UK: there is frank discussion of extra-marital sex, casual nudity and an ambivalent attitude to backstreet abortions. The circumstances of the girl's battle-scarred upbringing is broadly sketched, with a typically diabolical mother figure for Bergman, ever to be trusted to deliver a dysfunctional family portrait; at the same time, modern viewers may find it remarkable that the state had the write to circumscribe the heroine's freedom to the extent that it does here. However, the acting is first-rate, particularly Jönsson, a curiously squat and barrel-chested beauty, and the realism of the settings and secondary characters a fascinating watch.
(Hamnstad)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Nine-Christine Jönsson, Bengt Eklund, Mimi Nelson
Synopsis:
A sailor returns after years spent overseas and determines to settle down. He meets a girl at a dancehall but has no inkling that she has had a chequered love life and been in reformatory.
Review:
Though he might wonder why she goes to bed with him so readily... This drama dealt with post-war societal issues so frankly that it earned itself an 'X' certificate in the UK: there is frank discussion of extra-marital sex, casual nudity and an ambivalent attitude to backstreet abortions. The circumstances of the girl's battle-scarred upbringing is broadly sketched, with a typically diabolical mother figure for Bergman, ever to be trusted to deliver a dysfunctional family portrait; at the same time, modern viewers may find it remarkable that the state had the write to circumscribe the heroine's freedom to the extent that it does here. However, the acting is first-rate, particularly Jönsson, a curiously squat and barrel-chested beauty, and the realism of the settings and secondary characters a fascinating watch.