Wild Strawberries

Name: Wild Strawberries
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: June 22, 1959
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 88
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Folke Sundquist, Gertrud Fridh, Gunnar Björnstrand

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Contemporary Films | Release Date: June 22, 1959 | Not Rated

Starring: Bibi Andersson, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Folke Sundquist, Gertrud Fridh, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Broström, Ingrid Thulin, Jullan Kindahl, Naima Wifstrand, Victor Sjöström

Summary: After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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100

Chuck Bowen

Initially, Wild Strawberries appears to be an almost pointedly unsubtle coming-of-age story that’s been goosed with dime-store surrealism and male handwringing masked as intellectual engagement with humankind. But the bluntness is a misdirection that underlines the depth of Bergman’s empathy with his hero as well as his dedication to his real subject, which is the process of mentally freeing oneself from an insidiously limiting self-mythology. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Possibly Ingmar Bergman's finest film and a landmark in film history. Read full review

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Tom Dawson

This is one of the truly outstanding works of post-war European cinema. Read full review

Ty Burr

A film that goes where many others have gone (yes, this is Scrooge for Ph.D.s) but with a subtlety few have dreamed of? Read full review

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Pic sometimes talks too much in philosophical asides, but it remains a searching pictorial analysis of a man’s life. Expert directorial touches and notations of director Ingmar Bergman, and the dignified miming of oldtime director Sjostrom, plus other fine thespic additions, make this an offbeater. It’s a personal and profound work. Read full review

Dave Kehr

There's a lot of allegorical baggage on board, but the film's virtues lie in its relative simplicity. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

This one is so thoroughly mystifying that we wonder whether Mr. Bergman himself knew what he was trying to say. Read full review

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mcblancaflor

Jul 8, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A journey of a man's life. With death just looming around the corner, Professor Borg has one thing in mind: to reminisce. We get to see the heartaches, the euphoria. and the success of a to-be-awarded man in a very occupied day. We unravel throughout the day on why his daughter-in-law calls him someone who has a benevolent exterior but in the inside, as hard as nails. This is probably because of Sara choosing his brother over him which was aggravated more by marrying someone he doesn't really love as much as Sara. He may be an accomplished professor but his life is miserable and lonely.

This is the first Ingmar Bergman film I have watched and I am amazed how he captured the old man's emotion with the use of dreams and parallelism in the characters. Terror, endearment, regret, kindness, sorrow, care, and satisfaction. All of these emotions captured so well by Bergman and made us feel what Professor Borg felt in his lifetime. These may be the emotions felt by a human being living in this world. A human life may be full of sorrow but in his dying days, he can still be out of his comfort and change someone's life for the better.

Professor Borg woke up from a dream being terrorized by the idea of death but he goes back to sleep with a sense of satisfaction, with a smile on his face knowing that he is close in seeing his parents soon, in a better place.… Expand

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