So the Devil sends Don Juan back to earth just so he can pop Bibi Andersson's cherry, you know, because that's the kind of goofy s--t the Devil did back in the 60's when he was bored.
Also, Don Juan's wingman (who totally looks like Tom Waits and Dean Stockwell's love-child) screws a minister's wife.
I know they all can't be "Persona" or "Face to Face," but this one was just plain silly.
There's a stye on the eyelash of Devil cause nothing irritates him like a girl's purity - as said at the beginning. They are both sent back to Earth to take all of the pastor's family lives (including his own) off the course. There are many allegories and metaphors about man-woman, good-evil, heaven-hell and life-death relations. Most of it is put in a comic way, that is a difference though. But the movie dealt typical Bergman's subjects and I'm sorry You've missed them.
shareIn the penultimate scene, Don Juan probably summed (or exposed) up Bergman's cynical view of religion, morality, "true love," (he was married five times) and, well, life, in general when he said he despised Satan and God's constant silly games (if you recall in the Old Testament God pretty much makes a bet with the Devil concerning Job's faith, completely fu##ing him over for no reason other than to prove a point or amuse himself).
If our gods and demons are no less shallow than we, what of their rules tricks?
The movies's a little deeper than it looks.