{"id":19208,"date":"2012-01-27T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19208"},"modified":"2013-04-29T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T19:34:43","slug":"ingrid-bergman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19208","title":{"rendered":"An Intermezzo with the Beautiful Ingrid Bergman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/tag\/ingrid-bergman\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19233\" title=\"Intermezzo (1936)\" alt=\"Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1936-poster.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1936-poster.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1936-poster-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a>World-renowned Swedish violinist Holger Brandt (<a title=\"Gosta Ekman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Gosta+Ekman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gosta Ekman<\/a>) knows what he is about to do is wrong, but he does it anyway, and invites gifted student pianist Anita Hoffman (<a title=\"Ingrid Bergman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Ingrid+Bergman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ingrid Bergman<\/a>) out for a \u201clate dinner and wine\u201d after they meet\u2014not so much by coincidence at all\u2014exiting a theatrical performance.<\/p>\n<p>Anita has been providing piano lessons for Anne-Marie, Holger\u2019s little daughter, while he has been away from his wife and children on a long tour; at the girl\u2019s birthday party earlier, she had performed an impromptu duet with him, electrifying the assembled guests. Immediately, Holger realized that Anita would be the perfect choice to replace his retiring accompanist. He also realized he was in love.<\/p>\n<p>Late at night now, as they gaze over the side of a bridge at ice melting into the dark river, Holger tries to convince Anita to abandon her studies and join him on his next tour. At first, she refuses, but he continues to advance his case, telling her that she reminds him of a Viennese waltz, \u201csmiling but melancholy\u201d\u2014words that not only flatter and excite Anita, but also manage in a mere three words to bluntly describe the magical components of Ingrid Bergman\u2019s stardom.<\/p>\n<p>Movie fans have <a title=\"Intermezzo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D83129&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Intermezzo<\/a>\u2014the original 1936 Swedish melodrama, not the 1939 remake co-starring <a title=\"Leslie Howard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Leslie+Howard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Leslie Howard<\/a>\u2014to thank for Bergman\u2019s illustrious Hollywood career. Secondarily, they have David O. Selznick to thank, as he is the man who saw the film and realized an English-language remake could make her a highly bankable star in America. There will be more to say here about the Selznick version of the film later.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult, meanwhile, to write about Bergman at all without sounding like a lovestruck fool, but I will offer unreservedly that fans who have never seen her in director Gustaf Molander\u2019s dreamlike romantic film have missed what is essentially cinema\u2019s \u201cfirst kiss\u201d with the luminous star. Everything she has been celebrated for in more visibly appreciated classics like <a title=\"Casablanca Articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/tag\/casablanca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Casablanca <\/a>and <a title=\"Notorious\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D15126&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Notorious<\/a> is present and already in full flower here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/fanfare-guests\/gaslight\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19225\" title=\"Intermezzo (1936)\" alt=\"Ingrid Bergman stars in the 1936 drama Intermezzo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1-1936-ingrid-bergman-listening-playing.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1-1936-ingrid-bergman-listening-playing.jpg 500w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1-1936-ingrid-bergman-listening-playing-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>The film wastes no time in paving the way for the love affair between Ekman\u2019s Holger and Bergman\u2019s Anita. Our introduction to her character plants the first seed, when Holger\u2019s former accompanist (<a title=\"Hugo Bjorne\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Hugo+Bjorne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hugo Bjorne<\/a>) \u2014who is also her musical mentor\u2014and his manager (<a title=\"Erik Berglund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Erik+Berglund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Erik Berglund<\/a>) discuss him in front of her. When Bergman is asked if she is aware of not only Ekman\u2019s great talents but his qualities as a human being, her head slowly dips and her eyes glow with seductive hunger. The old men miss this reaction; we do not.<\/p>\n<p>That look is repeated when Holger and Anita play together for the first time at Anne-Marie\u2019s (Britt Hagman) birthday party, except now, her feelings are\u00a0on display for all to see. It is a remarkable scene in that it generates such brazen romantic heat between them but is\u00a0interpreted by some observers in the room to be \u201conly\u201d a passionate connection being made between two great musical artists.<\/p>\n<p>Anita\u2019s mentor glowers with alarm; he knows he is losing his pupil. Holger\u2019s manager grins with delight; he knows he has found Holger\u2019s new accompanist.<\/p>\n<p>We struggle with the enigmatic reaction of Holger\u2019s wife (<a title=\"Inga Tidblad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Inga+Tidblad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Inga Tidblad<\/a>), who watches the fire explode in her own home. She holds onto her young daughter tightly; the girl had started the duet at the piano with her father, but faltered. When Anita takes her place at the keyboard, the\u00a0child&#8217;s expression\u00a0is more than a little heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-hugo-bjorne-erik-berglund-inga-tidblad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19238\" title=\"intermezzo-hugo-bjorne-erik-berglund-inga-tidblad\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-hugo-bjorne-erik-berglund-inga-tidblad.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-hugo-bjorne-erik-berglund-inga-tidblad.jpg 500w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-hugo-bjorne-erik-berglund-inga-tidblad-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holger and Anita? Their eyes hardly meet in this scene of mutual seduction\u2014those longing\u00a0looks will come later, at the bridge, in the darkness\u2014but the connection they make is unmistakable. Through their passion for music and their skill at expressing it, they awaken a \u201cspring storm\u201d in their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of <em>Intermezzo<\/em> is about how the artists (and lovers) weather that storm. Viewers will see plot points that are to be echoed in <em>Casablanca<\/em>\u2014an abandonment by train; a plea to end the romance for her own benefit\u2014and also experience a narrative shock so jarring (towards the end) that it stirs up fears the film might be headed for ahead-of-its-time-tragedy in the mold of <a title=\"Crash\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D63890&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crash<\/a> or <a title=\"Babel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=B65090&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Babel<\/a>, only to have the script then deliver a u-turn so sharp as to nearly delegitimize everything that came before it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-2-1936-gosta-ekman-ingrid-bergman-on-tour-in-love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19227\" title=\"intermezzo-2-1936-gosta-ekman-ingrid-bergman-on-tour-in-love\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-2-1936-gosta-ekman-ingrid-bergman-on-tour-in-love.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-2-1936-gosta-ekman-ingrid-bergman-on-tour-in-love.jpg 500w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-2-1936-gosta-ekman-ingrid-bergman-on-tour-in-love-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>While the plot may suffer from some of its more melodramatic components, the lovely chemistry between Ekman and Bergman is what sticks in the mind; Molander\u2019s direction is sometimes stark, sometimes fluid, and sometimes beguilingly symbolic. Repeat viewings allow us to focus on how and why carefully placed flowers are employed to unite characters, or separate them from one another, or strangely block us from them; we find ourselves noticing how Ekman is always smoking in his scenes with his troubled wife, allowing the wispy clouds to pass around him and between them.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t noticed this while watching the film (which is available\u00a0as part of\u00a0the <a title=\"Ingrid Bergman in Sweden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D83129&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ingrid Bergman in Sweden<\/a> three-disc set, along with two other mother-tongue Bergman films, <a title=\"A Woman\u2019s Face\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D83129&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Woman\u2019s Face<\/a> and <a title=\"June Night\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D83129&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June Night<\/a>), but apparently editor Oscar Rosander goes uncredited. This is not a film \u201cabout\u201d cutting, of course, but this oversight is a shame because Rosander&#8217;s instincts\u00a0truly shine in the scenes where music performance is key. Not in the rather showy, percussive way we are used to seeing today, but in a manner that reveals a\u00a0keen understanding of how the music breathes and how tension can be raised or released in connection with a closeup, a particular angle, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>We return, as we must, to Ingrid Bergman. She was 21 when this film was released; already, in one of her earliest works, she deftly mixes the sweetest, most radiant charm with a gift for exuding scandalous desire.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said earlier\u2014one can\u2019t help but sound a lovestruck fool.<\/p>\n<p>American producer David O. Selznick, upon seeing Bergman in the film, was surely affected in a similar way as he realized a new star was waiting to be born. While the 1939 version of <em>Intermezzo<\/em> is the one most familiar to movie fans, it feels thin and bloodless when compared to the Swedish film. The Hollywood production is too well-lit, too overproduced, too clean, and too stiff; it is often improperly focused on middling business and bits unrelated to the meat of the love story. It is splashy but unpoetic.<\/p>\n<p>There is even some shot-for-shot duplication between the films, but the cutting together of these sequences in the remake feels stodgy. Even the music sounds drained of its force; competent but without passion.<\/p>\n<p>Bergman&#8217;s\u00a01939 leading man, Leslie Howard, may be\u00a0suitable enough in other films, but his rapport with her, especially in that critical scene of the first duet\u2014which, in spite of some overheated performance gestures, comes across duller than elevator music\u2014feels positively antiseptic. And, the Ingrid Bergman who was a force of nature in the original film would, despite the fact it was the <em>remake<\/em> that catapulted her to\u00a0U.S. stardom, only emerge later in her English-language career under the direction of masters like <a title=\"Michael Curtiz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director_smart.asp?search=Michael+Curtiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Curtiz<\/a> and <a title=\"Alfred Hitchcock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director_smart.asp?search=Alfred+Hitchcock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alfred Hitchcock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But in the Swedish <em>Intermezzo<\/em>, her incomparable beauty, irresistible allure, and uncanny acting were already on\u00a0complete display\u2014and so clearly defined by that \u201csmiling but melancholy\u201d line\u2014before any American movie lover ever knew her name. Like Holger, we are helplessly captivated by how she masters the instrument of her craft; our time with her is like a dream and all too brief, and when she leaves us we awaken back in the real world, feeling drenched and tossed-about as if by a tempestuous spring rain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1936-ingrid-bergman-gosta-ekman-take-life-by-storm-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19229\" title=\"intermezzo-1936-ingrid-bergman-gosta-ekman-take-life-by-storm (2)\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1936-ingrid-bergman-gosta-ekman-take-life-by-storm-2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1936-ingrid-bergman-gosta-ekman-take-life-by-storm-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/intermezzo-1936-ingrid-bergman-gosta-ekman-take-life-by-storm-2-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-renowned Swedish violinist Holger Brandt (Gosta Ekman) knows what he is about to do is wrong, but he does it anyway, and invites gifted student pianist Anita Hoffman (Ingrid Bergman) out for a \u201clate dinner and wine\u201d after they meet\u2014not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":19225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1488,1360,1469],"coauthors":[1708],"class_list":["post-19208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-notes","tag-1930s-movies","tag-drama-movies","tag-ingrid-bergman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An Intermezzo with the Beautiful Ingrid Bergman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Intermezzo (1939), the 1936 Swedish drama starring Ingrid Bergman is examined, and compared to the 1939 Hollywood remake produced by David O. 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