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Wild Strawberries

All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness

1957 · 1h 31m · Not Rated Drama
Directed by Ingmar Bergman

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Overview

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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94%
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Fresh

It's a personal and profound work.

Variety Staff, Variety
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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