Fresh
It's a personal and profound work.
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Wild Strawberries
Overview
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his 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.
Director and cast
- Ingmar Bergman Director
- Victor Sjöström as Professor Isak Borg
- Bibi Andersson as Sara
- Ingrid Thulin as Marianne
- Gunnar Björnstrand as Evald
- Jullan Kindahl as Agda
- Folke Sundquist as Anders
- Björn Bjelfvenstam as Viktor
- Naima Wifstrand as Isak's Mother
- Gunnel Broström as Mrs. Alman
- Gertrud Fridh as Karin, Isak's Wife
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
An archetypal Ingmar Bergman film, and one of his best.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
One of Bergman's warmest, and therefore finest films.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
Mr. Bergman, being a poet with the camera, gets some grand, open, sensitive images, but he has not conveyed full clarity in this film.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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