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"Wild Strawberries:" saw it yet again, and it does hold lasting value, as great

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works by great artists. I never paid a lot of attention, before, to the visit to the professor's mother, nor the bizarre sleep-images of his medical "test." Along with the VERY different Antonioni, Bergman dissected modern post-WWII society with precision, but also with enough mystery to leave the viewer many interesting moments after the viewing during which to discuss the meanings. Bergman, for all his seeming Nordic coldness, is a warmer artist than Antonioni; in this film, the old man has but a veneer of coldness: he has been damned with formidable reticence and shyness, not a dislike of intimacy, per se. Pauline Kael had some strong reservations about the film, many of which I share, but I think it's considerable faults are overwhelmed by the power of the human comedy laid bare.
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RE: "Wild Strawberries:" saw it yet again, and it does hold lasting value, as great - patrickU 09:50:01 05/11/11 (0)
You doubt it? Human inter relations never gets out of fashion.
And certainly not from a master�s hand.
RE: "Wild Strawberries:" saw it yet again, and it does hold lasting value, as great - RedGrant 11:02:48 05/06/11 (1)
I think Bergmann might have copied one part of the movie based on this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampyr

"The film uses dreams and memories as devices that hint at darker, deeper truths: in one, the old man sees a horse-driven hearse that is overturned, the coffin lid opens, and the corpse moves�and is revealed to be himself;" - Wild Strawberry
"Allan Gray (Nicolas de Gunzburg) finds a coffin containing himself in a dream sequence. Modern critics praise this sequence as one of the most memorable sequences from Vampyr.[13][14]" - Vampyr

Edits: 05/06/11 05/06/11
- Two points: the scene with the carriage I very strongly believe was an inside joke to his lead actor, - tinear 15:20:36 05/06/11 (0)
  Viktor Sjostrom. Sjostrom was the most famous silent-film director (and actor) in Sweden and his first film was, "The Phantom Carriage."
  There are more beautiful women in "Wild Strawberries" than in any other one I can think of.

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