Wild Strawberries or The Seventh Seal? Which of these was Bergman's best?
I can't decide!
Or maybe it was Smiles of a Summer Night? Or Sawdust and Tinsel? Or The Virgin Spring?
And The Magic Flute was good too!
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I just watched both for the first time today, and while I loved The Seventh Seal, this one was just something else. Brilliant filmmaking from a man who understands the most profound human thoughts and emotions. A perfect film.
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Wild Strawberries. I like the Seventh Seal but to much it's too pretentious. I'd put Persona, Face to Face and Cries & Whispers ahead of it.
shareWild Strawberries is my pick although The Seventh Seal blew me away the first time I saw it.There seems more to get out of Wild Strawberries from repeated viewings. Winter Light is currently my favourite Bergman picture.
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I didn't really care for WS too much. It wasn't a bad film, and it had a few really great scenes (like the surreal dream sequences). But the nature of it being a road movie and relying on flashbacks a lot sort of made me lose interest. In a way, this film reminds me of the 1994 Paul Newman vehicle Nobody's Fool, another movie I thought was just OK; where an old curmudgeon revisits his past, reconciles with his family, has a spunky relationship with his maid/landlady, and ends with him falling asleep in contentment. In both cases, I found the films to be endearing but not altogether life changing.
Whereas the Seventh Seal really got me thinking about it and pondering life's questions even after the movie ended. Maybe it was because I'm a big fan of Max Von Sidow, or just the Medieval setting, the death and despair, the livelier characters, and the general way Bergman approached the same questions (the meaning of life, the existence of God) in a more direct and uncompromising way. And it was just filled with so many memorable images.
At the end of the day, I have Wild Strawberries a 7/10, and Seventh Seal an 8/10.
I can't wait to watch the rest of his filmography, like Persona, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny and Alexander.
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