This is good because it's like A Christmas Carol if the ghosts of your past were crippling loneliness, and how you never got to marry your cousin.
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Der berühmte Mediziner Isak Borg soll an der Universität Lund zum 50. Jahrestag seiner Promotion ausgezeichnet werden. Gemeinsam mit seiner Schwiegertochter Marianne, die aufgrund ehelicher Probleme kurzzeitig bei Isak einzieht, tritt der 78-Jährige die Reise nach Lund mit dem Auto an. Doch verschiedene Anhalter, die der verbitterte Mediziner mitnimmt, führen ihm durch ihr Verhalten und ihre Geschichten seine eigenen Fehler vor Augen. In Tagträumen und Erinnerungen lässt er Stationen seines Lebens passieren und muss feststellen, dass er viele Jahre seines Lebens durch seine Herzenskälte verschenkt hat. Vor allem wegen des kaputten Verhältnisses zu seinem Sohn beschließt Borg, ein anderer Mensch zu werden ...
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This is good because it's like A Christmas Carol if the ghosts of your past were crippling loneliness, and how you never got to marry your cousin.
98I have finally found it. The film I cannot review. Any type of cohesive thought soon reduces me into a blubbering mess. All I feel is pure melancholy, and it reaches into the deepest depths of my soul while simultaneously enlightening my current self. This is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful film, and that's all I have.
so many themes packed into just 91 minutes: aging, guilt, regret, death, dreams, subconsciousness, memories, marriage, love, fear ... all standard for bergman’s oeuvre but especially realized here. amazing how he crafted such a tender, credible portrait of an elderly man when he himself was just under 40. Wild Strawberries feels like a swan song, somehow sung 60 years before his death. happy birthday, ingmar 💙
The film follows an elderly physician who, while traveling to receive an honorary degree, is confronted with memories and dreams that force him to reevaluate his distant, isolated life.
Ingmar Bergman directed this 1957 drama, which remains one of his most celebrated humanist works.
The film won the Golden Bear at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.