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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 14

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  I have finally found it. The film I cannot review. Any type of cohesive thought soon reduces me into a blubbering mess. All I feel is pure melancholy, and it reaches into the deepest depths of my soul while simultaneously enlightening my current self. This is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful film, and that's all I have.

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  Review by Wood ★★★★ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  This is good because it's like A Christmas Carol if the ghosts of your past were crippling loneliness, and how you never got to marry your cousin.

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  Review by brat pacino ★★★★½ 6

  so many themes packed into just 91 minutes: aging, guilt, regret, death, dreams, subconsciousness, memories, marriage, love, fear ... all standard for bergman’s oeuvre but especially realized here. amazing how he crafted such a tender, credible portrait of an elderly man when he himself was just under 40. Wild Strawberries feels like a swan song, somehow sung 60 years before his death. 

  happy birthday, ingmar 💙

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  Review by 🌻 lindsay 🌻 ★★★½ 21

  I have a lot of regrets. 

  Ending that one friendship the way I did because I was angry. 

  Failing that one class I took in college just purely because I was too lazy to go. 

  Not standing up for myself when that one person was mean to me.

  Leaving my sister’s wedding reception early because I was jealous that she had her life together when mine was so in flux. 

  And I’m not old. Not yet. But I feel old. A lot. And that comes with a lot of contempt against people younger than me, even while acknowledging within myself that that is very dumb. I see people in stages of their lives that I remember fondly and it makes…

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  Review by siobhan ★★★★½

  me when i decide to watch a bergman movie: da melancholy or da loneliness for today

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 6

  i thought this was going to be a bit more cheerful (wishful thinking, in my defense i was trying to sell it to my dad) but should have known better because this was almost all melancholy. that really sums up the year though, doesn’t it

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  Review by Muriel 1

  every time i watch an ingmar bergman film i end up in the middle of an identity crisis and feeling very overwhelmed, i guess we really don't know how fast time goes by until we get there

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  Review by toni ★★★★ 1

  this film makes me want to die but in a good way

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 7

  Film #23 of Make me watch your favourite.
  Recommended by MaxwellZ.

  Whenever I watch a Bergman film I need to take a step. A step which makes me realize that most of the time he tries to reason with me instead of reach my emotions. With Wild Strawberries he does exactly that and he does it extraordinarily well, but I can't help but feel that this wonderful story would have lent itself rather well for a more emotional exploration.

  WIld Strawberries is carried on the fragile shoulders of the amazing Victor Sjöström, a man I thankfully discovered through this list. Like in The Phantom Carriage, he shows here what an expressive actor he is. He can convey so much with…

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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★★ 15

  Ingmar Bergman is a famously bleak filmmaker, but Wild Strawberries stands out as different. It is Bergman at his most touching, human, loving, and emotional (even if sadness dominates many moments). Of course there are Bergman tropes but it's played at a different level to his religious or allegorical works. Wild Strawberries is a character study, dedicated entirely to dissecting the values and history of one man. Yet it is so much more as it probes the very things that make us happy.

  The lead character is an elderly professor, played by the fantastic Victor Sjöström, embarking on a road journey to collect an award from a university. What we come to realise is that this is a man whose soul…

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★½ 34

  “Wild Strawberries” is a film so full of artistic confidence — it dares to venture into the realm of dreams. 

  Off the success of “Seventh Seal,” as well as several notable productions from his Swedish theatre company, Ingmar Bergman was able to move into the production of “Strawberries” with a new daring. 

  The director made “Smiles of a Summer Night,” which sung of physical pleasures, while he was suicidal.

  Having touched near oblivion, he now slipped into intangible memory and imagination. 

  “Strawberries” relates fractions from the past and present of an elderly professor, who has isolated himself from the world and all within it. 

  The film flits between liminal and tangible space. It exists on the margins of reality; the…

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  Review by Jaime Rebanal ★★★★★ 6

  Wild Strawberries is such a conundrum of a film for someone like myself to talk about. There's so much that happens within the course of Wild Strawberries's relatively short running time of 91 minutes which overwhelms the human emotion. The first moment in which I saw Wild Strawberries left me questioning the course of my life together with what I believed in, and I had not revisited it ever since because the concoction of my own expressions left me in a state, almost depressed yet I learned something more. This is something I highly admire Ingmar Bergman for, as no matter what he chooses to tackle, I always find there's something worthy of being engrossed in. This is how I…