"Elena et les Hommes" - Ingrid Bergman film retrospective

Kino Rex is having a retrospective "A Summer with Ingrid Berman and Isabella Rossellini" and is showing 19 films dating from 1942 to 2024.

For details see: [https://rexbern.ch/filmreihen/ingrid-bergman-isabella-rossellini](Test)

Meeting time allows us 15 minutes before the film starts to meet up - please be on time so we can get seats together. In French with English subtitles.

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Today's movie: Elena et les Hommes is a 1956 film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, and Mel Ferrer. It was Bergman's first film after leaving her husband, director Roberto Rossellini. The film was originally released in English-speaking countries as Paris Does Strange Things. In "turn of the century" Paris, Elena Sokorowska, a young, beautiful, and free-spirited Polish princess, thinks that the daisies she gives to her boyfriends help them achieve their ambitions, and, once they do so, she loses interest and looks for another man to help.

Ingrid Bergman's performance in the film was highly praised. Roger Ebert wrote that, while the plot is about a Polish princess "who may have the future of France in her hands", "The movie is about something else - about Bergman's rare eroticism, and the way her face seems to have an inner light on film. Was there ever a more sensuous actress in the movies?"

About the actress, from Wikipedia:
Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) was a Swedish actress with a career spanning five decades. Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four). In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth-greatest female screen legend of "Classic Hollywood Cinema".

About the director, from Wikipedia:
Jean Renoir (1894-1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. His La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. Among numerous honours accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975.