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Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies

Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies

Dec. 26, 195791 Min.
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Watch: Smultronstället 1957 123movies, Full Movie Online – With the exception of his elderly housekeeper Miss Agda who he treats almost like a surrogate platonic wife, widowed seventy-eight year old Dr. Isak Borg, a former medical doctor and professor, has retreated from any human contact, partly his own want but partly the decision of others who do not want to spend time with him because of his cold demeanor. He is traveling from his home in Stockholm to Lund to accept an honorary degree. Instead of flying as was the original plan, he decides to take the day long drive instead. Along for the ride is his daughter-in-law Marianne, who had been staying with him for the month but has now decided to go home. The many stops and encounters along the way make him reminisce about various parts of his life. Those stops which make him reminisce directly are at his childhood summer home, at the home of his equally emotionally cold mother, and at a gas station where the attendants praise him as a man for his work. But the lives of other people they encounter almost mirror his own, including hitchhikers Sara, Viktor and Anders – who remind him of his cousin Sara who he was going to marry, himself and his irresponsible brother Sigfrid who Sara eventually married – a bickering married couple Sten and Berit Alman, and Marianne and her husband and Isak’s son Evald, whose marriage is as strained as was his own..
Plot: 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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When film was an art form
In this symbolic tale of an old man’s journey from emotional isolation to a kind of personal renaissance, Ingmar Bergman explores in part his own past, and in doing so rewards us all with a tale of redemption and love.

Victor Sjostrom, then 80 years old, stars as Professor Isak Borg whose self-indulgent cynicism has left him isolated from others. Sjostrom, whose work goes back to the very beginning of the Swedish cinema in the silent film era, both as an actor and as a director, gives a brilliant and compelling performance. All the action of the film takes place in a single day with flashbacks and dream sequences to Borg’s past as Borg wakes and goes on a journey to receive a “Jubilee Doctor” degree from the University of Lund. Bergman wrote that the idea for the film came upon him when he asked the question, “What if I could suddenly walk into my childhood?” He then imagined a film “about suddenly opening a door, emerging in reality, then turning a corner and entering another period of one’s existence, and all the time the past is going on, alive.”

Bibi Andersson plays both the Sara from Borg’s childhood, the cousin he was to marry, and the hitchhiker Sara who with her two companions befriends him with warmth and affection. The key scene is when the ancient Borg in dreamscape comes upon the Sara of his childhood out gathering wild strawberries. Borg looks on (unnoticed of course) as his brother, the young Sigfrid, ravishes her with a kiss which she returns passionately; and, as the wild strawberries fall from her bowl onto her apron, staining it red, Borg experiences the pain of infidelity and heartbreak once again. Note that in English we speak of losing one’s “cherry”; here the strawberries symbolize emotionally much the same thing for Sara. Later on in the film as the redemption comes, the present day Sara calls out to Borg that it is he that she really loves, always and forever. Borg waves her away from the balcony, yet we are greatly moved by her love, and we know how touched he is.

The two young men accompanying Sara can be seen as reincarnations of the serious and careful Isak Borg and the more carefree and daring Sigfrid. It is as though his life has returned to him as a theater in which the characters resemble those of his past; yet we are not clear in realizing whether the resemblance properly belongs in the old man’s mind or is a synchronicity of time returned.

Memorable is Ingrid Thulin who plays Mariana, the wife of Borg’s son who accompanies him on the auto trip to Lund. She begins with frank bitterness toward the old man but ends with love for him; and again we are emotionally moved at the transformation. What Bergman does so very well in this film is to make us experience forgiveness and the transformation of the human spirit from the negative emotions of jealousy and a cold indifference that is close to hate, to the redemption that comes with love and a renewal of the human spirit. In quiet agreement with this, but with the edge of realism fully intact, is the scene near the end when Borg asks his long time housekeeper and cook if they might not call one another by their first names. She responses that even at her age, a woman has her reputation to consider. Such a gentle comeuppance meshes well with, and serves as a foil for, all that has gone on before on this magical day in an old man’s life.

See this for Bergman who was just then realizing his genius (The Seventh Seal was produced immediately before this film) and for Sjostrom who had the rare opportunity to return to film as an actor in a leading role many decades past him prime, and made the most of it with a flawless performance, his last major performance as he was to die three years later.

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Review By: DennisLittrell
A cathartic viewing experience
I’d seen “Wild Strawberries” as a college freshman when it was first released, and knew right away I’d be a Bergman fan from then on.

I watched it again just last night, January 2004, at age 63, and needless to say got a whole different perspective on the film. Where the surrealist touches, moody photography, and incredibly smooth direction had made the big hit with me as a near boy, as an aging man I found myself–I hesitate to say painfully, but…well, closely–identifying with old Isak Borg in his strange pilgrimage, both interior and exterior, the day he receives his honorary degree at the cathedral in Lund.

In the last twenty minutes or so of the movie, I found tears running down my face, not from any thrilling sentimental browbeating (I doubt if Mr. Bergman shot five seconds’ worth of sentimentality in his whole long career!) but simply from the cumulative emotional impact of this simple, powerful story and its probing revelation of human character, desire, and chagrin.

By the time the film ended, I felt wrung out, disoriented, happy and deeply sad at the same time: it’s the experience the Greeks wanted their tragedies to convey to the spectator; they spoke of “katharsis.” I experienced it firsthand when I had the great good fortune to see a production (in English) of “Medea.” I walked away in tears and scarcely able to think straight for an hour or so.

The same thing happened with “Wild Strawberries.” This is one of the handful of films I unhesitatingly rate a “ten.”

A side note: I watched the Criterion Collection DVD. Before the film itself, I watched the hour-long interview conducted in 1998 by Jorn Donner included on the disc. It was remarkable to see how the film Bergman shot ca. 1957 contains many elements that were to be present in his later life–like a foreshadowing of his own old age.

Review By: jonr-3

Other Information:

Original Title Smultronstället
Release Date 1957-12-26
Release Year 1957

Original Language sv
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Ingmar Bergman
Writer Ingmar Bergman
Actors Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Country Sweden
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 18 wins & 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Film-Teknik, Stockholm, Sweden
Film Length 2,490 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format Digital, 35 mm

Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Wild Strawberries 1957 123movies
Original title Smultronstället
TMDb Rating 8.136 1,343 votes

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