Gun Jonsson Movies

Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille August while the film was in progress) is from a well-to-do family. Despite the expected class differences and personality clashes, love-or at least mutual understanding-prevails. But after a harsh, spare few years as the wife of a clergyman, Anna yearns for the more bountiful pleasures of her family home. Bergman writes himself into the proceedings as a mewling infant. The current three-hour theatrical version of Best Intentions (original title: Den Goda Viljan) was simultaneously prepared as a six-hour TV miniseries, which ran in Europe, Scandanavia, and Japan. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Harry (Jan Nielsen) is the teenage boy on the verge of self discovery. When he invents a new product, an American company offers to pay for his continuing education in the United States. His parents are at a stalemate in their marriage. His father labors on a printing press and his mother engages in an illicit affair with the American business representative. Harry turns down the offer when he discovers his mother's affair. He also realizes he has made some older friends in the town he thought had nothing to offer him. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide