It’s an often painful drama and [Victor] Sjöström gives a vulnerable, moving performance as the crotchety, morally imperious old man... but it’s also one of Bergman’s warmest, most understanding, and most beautiful films.

| Dec 16, 2023

Bergman's penchant for giving physical form to the conscious and subconscious mind is rarely more apparent than in his 1957 masterpiece Wild Strawberries.

| Dec 12, 2023

What comes out is an evaluation of the human conscious and of the regrets and why one feels the way they do.

| Mar 6, 2023

One of Bergman's best in a six-decade-long career littered with masterpieces.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2021

An eerie, felicitous opportunism steered this film -- just enough Freudian bitters, modern marriage, supernatural overcast, and "smashingly beautiful" postcards to provide a full matinee of culture for the expanding middlebrow-highbrow audience.

| Sep 15, 2021

Wild Strawberries is a simple film on paper but on screen it is a meditative look at one man's life.

| Apr 1, 2021

A celebration of the power of actors to create rich personalities for us to spend time with.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 30, 2020

Wild Strawberries is to my mind a far more complete and interesting film than the much over- praised Seventh Seal, for the simple reason that it says something negative.

| Jul 16, 2018

Bergman understands one of the most bittersweet characteristics of nostalgia: it juxtaposes our memories, in which everyone is young and healthy, and the inevitable reality of physical decline that followed. [Full review in Portuguese.]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2016

Bergman's dual journey of remembrances and reveries

| Feb 16, 2016

[VIDEO ESSAY] "Wild Strawberries" is a thematically abundant film that fluidly condenses a lifetime's worth of experience into succinct cinematic fragments under Ingmar Bergman's complex construction of abstract corollaries.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 22, 2014

...an intensely cinematic psychological portrait of a man reckoning with the how and why of who he's become.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 21, 2014

Gunnar Fischer's photography becomes ever more luminous and Sjstrm's performance grows in greatness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2013

The relentless symbolism, and some rather heavy-handed dream sequences are off-putting at times, but Wild Strawberries has enough sorrow, warmth and profundity to make for sophisticated and rewarding viewing.

| Jul 23, 2013

If some of the symbolism is a bit top-heavy, Bergman's richly evocative contrasts of youth with age more than compensate, as does Sjstrm's majestic performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2013

A reviewer must exercise some tact in discussing this picture. It is a work of such high and subtle art that the temptation is to run in with a smother of adjectives and a display of analytical explanation.

| Jul 23, 2013

Bergman's often heralded masterpiece of European cinema is more than a formal delight. It's funny, touching, and very, very emotional.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 22, 2013

Swedish master Ingmar Bergman delivered one of his greatest ruminations on love and life in this 1957 drama.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 11, 2013

Several actors who were to form the director's virtual stock company are here, but it is Sjstrm who is heart and soul of the film.

| Jan 25, 2013

It's a personal and profound work.

| Mar 26, 2009