Dreams

Kvinnodröm (Dreams, 1955) is a Swedish drama by Ingmar Bergman you can watch online on iFILM. Eva Dahlbeck and Harriet Andersson lead the cast; Gunnar Björnstrand appears in a supporting role.

Fashion agency owner Susanne and her young model Doris travel together to Gothenburg on business. Each expects something beyond work. Susanne meets a married former lover and finds nothing has changed — only she has. Doris lets an aging aristocrat show her the kind of attention she mistakes for something more. The two stories run parallel; they don't intersect, they rhyme.

Against Bergman's own output this is a smaller piece, made the same year as Smiles of a Summer Night but without that film's wit. What it does precisely is map two different traps: one woman held back by the past, another who confuses being noticed with being loved. Stream Kvinnodröm online on iFILM.