Drew, I had the same experience watching Wild Strawberries on the Criterion DVD. It’s a simply remarkable film. And MMoore, as to Sjostrom being miscast, I think that’s way off the mark. Bergman himself said that Sjostrom took the script and made it his own. Since Bergman was only 39 when he made it a Sjostrom was 78, he brought to it his life experience of an old man facing exactly the same crises that Borg is experiencing. Few films bring us so insightfully into stark black and white reality of life in one’s later years. That is, you’re either alive or you’re dead, and Borg at the very end, chooses to accept life as it is and live.
Wild Strawberries about 3 years ago
Drew, I had the same experience watching Wild Strawberries on the Criterion DVD. It’s a simply remarkable film. And MMoore, as to Sjostrom being miscast, I think that’s way off the mark. Bergman himself said that Sjostrom took the script and made it his own. Since Bergman was only 39 when he made it a Sjostrom was 78, he brought to it his life experience of an old man facing exactly the same crises that Borg is experiencing. Few films bring us so insightfully into stark black and white reality of life in one’s later years. That is, you’re either alive or you’re dead, and Borg at the very end, chooses to accept life as it is and live.
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