Wild Strawberries (Begman, 1957): Castle Cinema, 7.30pm
This 16mm presentation by those great people at Cine-Real film club is also being screened on Sunday July 20th. Full details here.
Time Out review:
One of Bergman's warmest, and therefore finest films, this concerns an
elderly academic - grouchy, introverted, dried up emotionally - who
makes a journey to collect a university award, and en route
relives his past by means of dreams, imagination, and encounters with
others. It's an occasionally over-symbolic work (most notably in the
opening nightmare sequence), but it's filled with richly observed
characters and a real feeling for the joys of nature and youth. And
Sjöström - himself a celebrated director, best known for his silent work
(which included the Hollywood masterpiece The Wind) - gives an
astonishingly moving performance as the aged professor. As Bergman
himself wrote of his performance in the closing moments: 'His face shone
with secretive light, as if reflected from another reality...It was
like a miracle'.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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