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Understandably impressed by their Tracy/Hepburn-style bantering in Waiting Women, Bergman wrote Bj�rnstrand and Dahlbeck a vehicle of their own. Structurally, it plays a trick on the audience, for we don't immediately twig that the two are playing a married couple. He's a top gynaecologist drifting into an affair with patient Lombard. Her response is to dash off to Copenhagen to the arms of rough-hewn sculptor Gr�nberg, her one-time fianc�. Proceedings span the broadly farcical (a nightclub brawl helps clear the air between the combatants) and the subtly insightful (Bj�rnstrand's lunch with rebellious teenage daughter Andersson helps him realise how much he's become disengaged from his own family). Eventually self-knowledge and acceptance help the sexes bridge their differences. A minor but mostly agreeable picture, which finds Bergman gearing up for his altogether more resonant exercise in wise comedy, Smiles of a Summer Night. (Trevor Johnston, Time Out)