Wild Strawberries

Movie

1957

1h 31m

Swedish

Drama

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8.2

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Wild Strawberries

Movie

1957

1h 31m

Swedish

Drama

Watch on The Criterion Channel

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

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Cast

Professor Isak Borg

Sara

Marianne Borg

Evald Borg

Agda

Anders

Viktor

Mrs. Borg

Berit Alman

Karin Borg

Aunt Olga

Sten Alman

Henrik Åkerman

Karin's Lover

Uncle Aron

Sigfrid Borg

Sigbritt Borg

Charlotta Borg

Angelica Borg

Eva Åkerman

Anna Borg

Kristina Borg

Birgitta Borg

Hagbart Borg (uncredited)

Göran Lundquist

Benjamin Borg (uncredited)

Directed By: Ingmar Bergman

Written By: Ingmar Bergman (Screenplay)

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edjedanzed says...

7 years ago

One word to describe this movie: Sublime

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JoeyvanAwesome says...

11 months ago

The way it’s told is interesting and makes this kind of worth it. With the dreams and the flashbacks. That’s all okay. Almost reminds me of Christmas Carol in a way. Most of the other characters are annoying as fuck, though. It distracted the hell out of me and made me thankful that this was not that long.

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soonertbone says...

5 months ago

I love Victor Sjostrom's performance in The Phantom Carriage, so it was fun and emotionally resonant to watch this movie with him in the lead, as we see his character confront the guilt and regrets that come with old age. There was depth here that I don't think I was fully present to (a common experience when I watch Bergman, that feeling of subtext washing over me) so it's one I want to revisit.

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manicure says...

4 years ago

The most uneventful road trip of the history cinema, along with an old man's bittersweet memories and life reflections. Like Proust's infamous madeleine, Isak Borg's strawberries trigger a series of idyllic flashbacks and disturbing nightmares that make him realize how little he knows about the world, how he was after all the leading cause of his own pain and loneliness. It's an incredibly poetic and melancholic film, but I have to confess that I expected it to get much deeper into the characters' psyche.

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CinemaSerf

a week ago

There's a great scene near the start of this film that sees an horse-drawn hearse get it's wheel caught between the kerb and a lamp-post. The horses persist in moving forward, the wheel comes off and we have a coffin exposed in the middle of a deserted street. A passer-by approaches the coffin only More

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Andres Gomez

6 years ago

Bergman talks about the meaning of life and the pass of time.

Great cast, that will repeat in several of Bergman's movies and remarkable performances from Ingrid Thulin and Victor Sjöström.

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