Category: Non-EnglishAlong with The Seventh Seal & The Magician, Wild Strawberries launched Bergman's international career. For the first time he moves away from his studio sets and emphasis on "sets" since Bergman is such a powerful theater personality. While there's also the intense debate about theater and film, Bergman undeniably takes the best of both worlds and mixes it very poignantly. In fact I'd like to add here that aside from being the master of the close up, he's one of the few film makers who has a brilliant understanding of the medium of Black and White.
The movie follows the much acclaimed Victor Sjöström, who despite retiring from cinema in real life makes a comeback to films for his friend Bergman. It tells the story of Victor's character Isak Borg who attempts to find redemption in his life after a horrific dream. The people he meets on a "road trip" he undertakes with his daughter in law manage to provide him with the tools of understanding humanity and more importantly understanding his relationship with himself.
Such strong performances by everyone especially Ingrid Thulin. Make this film a definite watch, Bergman is all about the metaphors and symbols, so people who like to use such crappy terms to describe film makers should be able to watch this film with no problems!
Recommendation level: 5/5 - this is a masterpiece and a must for any Cinema enthusiasts, don't get bored!
tad bit complicated, i think i need to watch it a couple of times more!
ReplyDeleteDude, it's fairly straight up :P But yes, a lot of things about the film make more sense once they are contextualized. Anu did an awesome job of this back in college, this film had the same effect that Breathless did on me - if not more. Just talking about the course in general here though.
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