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.
Cinemas
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Wild Strawberries
Smultronstället
An acclaimed, moving drama.
Drama
1957
1h 31m
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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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 💙
Common questions
What is Wild Strawberries about?+
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.
Who directed Wild Strawberries?+
Ingmar Bergman directed this 1957 drama, which remains one of his most celebrated humanist works.
Has Wild Strawberries won any awards?+
The film won the Golden Bear at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
