| | |  | SWEDEN | Home » » Wild Strawberries: Essential Art House | | | | | | | Description: | | Weaving a tapestry of memory and dreams, Ingmar Bergman delves into the past of aged professor Isak Borg, en route to receive an award from his alma mater for a life he no longer understands. Following directly on the heels of his international breakthrough The Seventh Seal, the alternately warm and nightmarish Wild Strawberries cemented Bergman as the leading art-house visionary of his era. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Victor Sjöström, Ingrid Thulin, Max von Sydow, Gunnel Broström, Åke Fridell | | Director:
| Ingmar Bergman | | Format:
| AC-3, Black & White, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled | | Language:
| Swedish | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Criterion Collection | | Run Time:
| 91 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| September 09, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
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The Master's MasterpieceMar 27, 2009
By Old Dog
"Expatiation"
After half a century, WILD STRAWBERRIES yet glimmers in these darkling days. A meditation on old age, selfishness, duty, love, and reconciliation, the film traces the last days of a respected but unloving physician (played by the elderly, frail, great Victor Sjostram, who passed away during the making of the film [in the 1920s he had starred in the daunting silent THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE, set in Iceland]). The main character undertakes a journey by car with his daughter-in-law to receive an honorary degree from Alma Mater. On the way he adopts three college students and a snarling, embittered married couple. He visits his very very elderly and very cold mother--and always there are visions of the sorrows, regrets, and bitternesses of his past. At the film's luminescent close the doctor at last casts off ancient recriminations to achieve a peaceful repose lulled by a shimmering scene from long ago with Mother and Father in happy tableau. One of cinema's outstanding achievemnts. But I too am an old man.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
RivetingJul 11, 2009
By A. Eastwood
Wild Strawberries is an excellent display of the broad spectrum of human emotion. At first glance an immediate disdain is inspired by the main character, until the story unfolds revealing the source of his callousness. By the end I felt nothing but a profound sense of empathy and compassion. Bergman has quickly become one of my favorite directors, and in my opinion, this film is among his best.
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Appreciation of This Film Came With AgeSep 24, 2009
By carol irvin
"carol irvin"
When I watched this film when I was young, I did not like it. I thought it was too stark, too melancholy, too dark. When you are young the world is more of a technicolor place and perhaps we are all unwilling to let the dark clouds into it. I resaw this film when I was in my 50s and my reaction was much different. There is a melancholy yet bittersweet quality to this film, almost a dreamlike glide through the corridors of memory and time. For it is an old person who will die sooner, rather than later, who is looking back on his whole life and his memories as well as winding up his life as it exists in the present. Everyone who has made it to an older age will recognize the territory of the film at once as very, very familiar. It is a Swedish professor who we watch on this journey. His relationships in life have been turbulent but not out of the ordinary. It is a beautiful film, one of Bergman's very best and he didn't make any duds.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
great film but what's with the green letters?Jul 28, 2010
By Bill Fisher
i love this film. my first intro to Bergman
and foreign films. this Janus Essential presentation
looks terrific; clear, crisp, etc. but the subtitles
are done in a strange, blurry, blue and green
typefont that makes it miserable to read.
what's with that? it's the same kind of subtitles
that are used on so many DVDs. time for a change.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
In search of lost timeApr 27, 2010
By technoguy
"jack"
Bergman makes films with the depth and subtlety that a writer uses in writing great novels.This film is a lodestone in it's ability to set the template for all future films.There is a nightmare sequence that is truly astonishing,clocks without hands,people without faces,a coffin revealing himself that has fallen off a carriage.The power of the leading actor(Sjostrom) who himself was one of Sweden's great directors, to convey changes of emotion from sadness to joy.The road trip he takes, is both external by car to Lund to collect an honorary doctorate for his lifetime acheivements.Its also internal,through dreams and memories into the wild strawberry-patch of the unconscious.With his daughter-in-law Marianne(Tulin) he explores the highways and the by-ways,picking up hitch-hikers enroute,having a minor accident with a squabbling married couple.His dedication to his science has cut him off from the spontaneous springs of innocence,love and happiness.The symbolism is not heavy-handed,it meshes beautifully in with the past,the present and the future of his life.Bibi Andersson plays both his early love Sara,who he loses through his coldness, and one of the young hitch-hikers on their way to Italy.The black and white filmography is a superbly executed achieve- ment.The dialogue has Dickensian power,the narrative is like a beautiful jewel, that glimmers,the dream sequences are expressive and surrealistic.All the characters are working, from his cold dowager mother to Von Sydow as a garage mechanic.
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