Watch the film Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman (1957) and write a review including the following points:
1) the director;
2) the protagonist(s);
3) the time and setting;
4) summary;
5) appraisal.
Optional points:
1) prehistory;
2) awards.
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Widely acknowledged as one of Ingmar Bergman's finest films, Wild Strawberries is a distillation of all that is great about this director - his humanity, his appreciation of human psychology and his consummate skill as a cineaste. Gunnar Fischer's expressionistic photography adds greatly to the film's lyrical power and is the perfect support for Bergman's intensely humanist portrait of an old man who looks back on his life with great sorrow, and in so doing causes us to reflect on our own lives. Winner of the Golden Bear for the Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1958, Wild Strawberries is a haunting piece of cinema that has exerted a great influence on many other filmmakers.
ReplyDeleteThe film moves seamlessly between present reality, past memories and dreams - recognising the fact that all three play an essential part throughout the journey that is human existence. The dreams help the film's central character, an ageing doctor of medicine, to make sense of his memories and thereby see more clearly his life in the present. It's a tragic story because, after a life devoted to ministering for other people's bodies, he finally realises that he has neglected to make contact with their souls. The film's apparent simplicity is a thin veil that covers some profound humanist messages, and, like much of Bergman's work, it allows various interpretations.
One critical factor in the film's success is the extraordinary performance from its lead actor, Victor Sjöström, who, apart from being a great actor, was also a noted film director, responsible for such silent classics as Eyvind ofthe Hills (1918), The Phantom Carriage (1921) and The Wind (1928). Here, in his final screen role, Sjöström conveys a sense of isolation and self- reproach that is almost heart-breaking, yet there's also a feeling of intellectual detachment and aloofness that makes his character distant, unsympathetic and at times unfathomable. It is as poignant and convincing a portrait of old age as cinema has ever shown us, and Bergman's compassion for his subject is surpassed only by the sublime elegance of his mise-en-scène.
I really liked this movie, it left a deep impression on me
Wild Strawberries shot in 1957 in Venice, is one of the best works of the great director. Bergman uses those plot and stylistic means that later became characteristic features of his work; the theme of man in the face of death and the art of retrospect — the whole life of the protagonist flashes before the viewer's eyes, forcing him to reflect on his own life actions. Isak Borg, a professor from Stockholm, recalls and reviews the disappointments of his long life. Together with his son's wife, he goes by car to the presentation of an honorary doctorate, visiting places where he was young along the way, meeting different people and old acquaintances, remembering dreams and the past. The classic actor of silent Swedish cinema Viktor Shestrem, played his best role, in which he conveyed the dramatic struggles of the hero, endowing him with an extraordinary scale of his own personality, spirituality and inner charm. Let's note the remarkable camerawork of Gunnar Fischer, animating the stingy Swedish nature, which, as it were, takes the hero of the film under its canopy, softening the severity of internal conflicts and giving incomparable moments of happiness and peace. Anyone who is seriously interested in cinema should watch this film. Prizes: Gold prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 1958
ReplyDeleteThus, the main driving force of "Strawberry Meadow" is a desperate attempt to justify myself to parents who turned away from me, who grew up to mythical proportions, an attempt doomed to failure from the very beginning. Only many years later, my mother and father found normal proportions in my eyes - infantile and bitter hatred dissolved and disappeared. And our meetings were filled with trust and mutual understanding. Ingmar Bergman.
Wild Strawberries is a 1957 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Isak Borg, the protagonist, and Ingmar Bergman, the director, share the same initials, but they are not otherwise linked in obviously discoverable ways—indeed, it is strange to learn, given how memorably the aged actor stamps the part as his own, that the role of Isak was not even written with Sjöström in mind. Running time
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It was director Ingmar Bergman’s first commercial success in the United States.Revered medical doctor and professor Isak Borg (played by Sjöström) undertakes an extended car trip from Stockholm to Lund to receive an honorary university degree. He is joined by his daughter-in-law, Marianne (Ingrid Thulin), with whom he has a prickly relationship. Their encounters with various people along the way spark a series of surrealistic flashbacks for the professor. He reevaluates key moments in his life and their significance to him while also pondering his impending death.
Sjöström had been one of the great actors and directors of the Swedish silent cinema. His film " (The Phantom Carriage, 1921) was one of Bergman’s favourites and a major influence on Wild Strawberries, which was Sjöström’s final performance. Sjöström won much praise for bringing empathy to a character who has spent his life as a cold and insulated person. Bergman later said, “Wild Strawberries was no longer my film; it was Victor Sjöström’s!”
Studio: Svensk Filmindustri
Director and writer: Ingmar Bergman
Producer: Allan Ekelund
Music: Erik Nordgren
Running time: 91 minutes
Swedish film "Wild Strawberry" wrote director Ingmar Bergman. The main roles in this film were played by film actors who constantly starred with Bergman - Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand and Bibi Andersson, and the main role of Professor Isak Borg was played by an elderly director Viktor Sjöström. The duration of the film is 91 minutes. The plot of this film is simple. The film tells about an elderly man who rides in a car and remembers his past. This is the selfish Professor Isak Borg. He's going from Stockholm to Lund. He should get a doctorate from Jublaris. in the car is his son's pregnant wife Marianne. She goes to her husband to make peace with him. During the trip, he is caught in a nightmare to reassess life. He meets hitchhikers, each of whom awakens dreams of Borg's troubled past. Also on the way they stop at different places that are very dear to the professor. It all made him reevaluate his life.
ReplyDeleteIsak in Swedish has two meanings: "ice" and "fortress", which fully reflects the essence of the character - a callous, egocentric person who consciously fenced himself off from the outside world. when the director was filming the picture, many people who knew him argued that the image of Borg was the spitting image of Ingmar Bergman.
The film has received awards such as the "Golden Globe" and " Golden Bear".
Wild Strawberries is a 1957 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.The protagonist’s are Professor Isak Borg, Sarah, Isak's cousin Marianne Borg, daughter-in-law of Isak
ReplyDeleteWidowed seventy-eight-year-old Professor of Medicine Isak Borg
he tells the housekeeper Agda that he intends to travel from Stockholm to Lund, where he should be awarded an honorary degree in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of his medical practice, by car. Together with Borg, his daughter-in-law Marianne is invited to go, and along the way they are accompanied by a charming girl named Sarah and her two suitors: Anders and Victor. Stopping in places near the house where Isak lived with members of his extended family in his youth brings back a lot of memories.
The idea of this film came to Bergman spontaneously when, on the way from Stockholm to Dalarna, he drove by car to Uppsala, where he was born and grew up in his grandmother's house. And I thought that I could make a film in which "you just open the door and get into your childhood, and then open another door and return to reality, and then turn the corner and find yourself in some more fragment of your life" (Bergman about Bergman, 1970). In this form, everything got on film: a car ride, an empty family nest and memories of the past, through the "doors" through which the secrets of the subconscious of the protagonist are revealed.
Wild Strawberries have been awarded many different awards and prizes, including:Golden Globe (1960) - Best Foreign Language Film
Berlin Festival (1958)-Golden Bear
Venice Film Festival (1958) - Italian Critics Award - Parallel Sections
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ReplyDeleteSwedish film "Wild Strawberry" wrote director Ingmar Bergman. The main roles in this film were played by film actors who constantly starred with Bergman - Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand and Bibi Andersson, and the main role of Professor Isak Borg was played by an elderly director Viktor Sjöström.
The duration of the film is 91 minutes. The plot of this film is simple. The film tells about an elderly man who rides in a car and remembers his past. This is the selfish Professor Isak Borg. He's going from Stockholm to Lund. He should get a doctorate from Jublaris in the car is his son's pregnant wife Marianne. She goes to her husband to make peace with him. During the trip, he is caught in a nightmare to reassess life. He meets hitchhikers, each of whom awakens dreams of Borg's troubled past. Also on the way they stop at different places that are very dear to the professor. It all made him reevaluate his life.
Isak in Swedish has two meanings: "ice" and "fortress", which fully reflects the essence of the character - a callous, egocentric person who consciously fenced himself off from the outside world. when the director was filming the picture, many people who knew him argued that the image of Borg was the spitting image of Ingmar Bergman.
The film has received awards such as the "Golden Globe" and " Golden Bear".
The Swedish film "Strawberry" was written by director Ingmar Bergman. The main roles in this film were played by film actors who constantly starred with Bergman - Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand and Bibi Andersson, and the main role of Professor Isak Borg was played by an elderly director Viktor Shostrem. The duration of the film is 91 minutes. The film tells about an elderly man who rides in a car and remembers his past. This is the selfish Professor Isak Borg. He's going from Stockholm to Lund. He should get his doctorate from Jublaris. his son's pregnant wife Marianne is in the car. She goes to her husband to make peace with him. During the trip, he gets into a nightmare to reevaluate life. He meets hitchhikers and that's how his adventures begin.
ReplyDeletethe idea for this film came to Bergman spontaneously when, on the way from Stockholm to Dalarna, he drove by car to Uppsala, where he was born and grew up in his grandmother's house. And he thought he could make a movie in which "you just open a door and get into your childhood, and then open another door and come back to reality.
Strawberry has been awarded many different awards and prizes, including: Golden Globe (1960) - Best Foreign Language Film