Wild Strawberries
(Smultronstället)
88 minutes,
Sweden (1957), 15
An ageing professor travels with his daughter-in-law to receive an honorary degree. A journey of self-discovery and redemption, and an uncharacteristically warm tale from Ingmar Bergman, cinema's acknowledged master of the inner life
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Wild Strawberries: Ingmar Bergman is famed for his pessimism and a wryly ironic attitude, which frequently dissolves into anguish and despair. Bergman films are hardly universal fare and they're ludicrously at odds with multiplex values. It's doubly ironic, then, that Wild Strawberries, if it were to suffer the indignities of a remake, could easily be turned into superior Hollywood feelgood material...
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