Seeing Wild Strawberries again, 45 years after its initial release, it's hard not to think of the works of art that have followed it, treading in the footsteps of Ingmar Bergman's haunting masterpiece ...
Some movies are more difficult than others; Wild Strawberries — as well as just about any Ingmar Bergman flick — definitely qualifies. And though this complex film, in which an elderly widower ...
When Ingmar Bergman exports a film, he often exports Ingrid Thulin too. She was the somber daughter-in-law in Wild Strawberries, the agonized wife of The Magician, and the plain and neurotic ...
A Beginner’s Guide to Ingmar BergmanAnyone who has ever cast their gaze to the sky and impotently wondered why the world is such absolute crap will be able to tap into Bergman’s ethos.
Bergman’s journey to the underworld is full of horror, but done with a subtlety that avoids the literalism of vampires and the thrill of murder and monsters in the dark. The horror is closer to home ...