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"Monika"
1952
Directed by Ingmar Bergman

"Harriet Andersson gives a memorably moving performance as a self-centered, self-willed, but erotic adolescent" (Georges Sadoul) in this tale of young desperation.  The young Harriet Andersson is Monika, the teenage girl who escapes her poverty together with a young man.  After spending the summer camped out on an island off the Swedish coast, exploring their emotions and sensuality;  hunger, pregnancy and boredom drive her back to her old life when summer ends.  Swedish with English subtitles.  82 minutes.

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