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Strong advice before watching (no spoilers).

posted 17 years ago by wobblythoughts
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If you have not seen this film, I would recommend that you don't watch it without first watching another one: Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957).

I liked Another Woman plenty, but I could not help but going back constantly to Wild Strawberries and thinking about it and remembering characters and places about it, as well as the deep impact it had on me when I saw it two years ago.

This is a (strong) suggestion, for I wouldn't want you to have the same experience but the other way around: that when seeing Wild Strawberries you can't avoid going back to Another Woman.

Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?

[–] jallington 17 years ago

I agree that the references to Wild Strawberries are obvious. It's no secret that Woody was and is a huge Bergman fan and he borrows themes and images constantly. While I wouldn't agree that it's a MUST to see WS first, I recommend both movies on their own merits. WS is my favorite Bergman film, and Another Woman is a true lost gem amongst Woody Allen's works.

[–] bunnywithanaxe 17 years ago

I saw Another Woman (and loved it much) before I saw Wild Strawberries. It's good to see them together, but I don't think it much matters which comes first-- they are the stories of two completely different people, told in a similar way.

[–] Aaron_bhkk 17 years ago

This is a strange coincidence, considering two of the three movies I have from Netflix right now are Another Woman and Wild Strawberries. I watched Another Woman first. Hopefully it doesn't take away from the other film as much as you implied.

[–] Giulietta_degli_spiriti 17 years ago

The only thing I know is that Bergman is muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuchhhhhhh beeeeeeeeeeetter than Woody Allen. I can't even compare them.

[–] marloweisdead 17 years ago

What is the point of saying that? Your post, especially in light of all the other ones preceding it, comes off looking totally facile. "I can't even compare them" says you, right after you've compared them by telling us that Bergman is muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuchhhhhhh beeeeeeeeeeetter than Woody Allen. Why not save your amazing comments for films such as "Night At The Museum" or "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry", or other similar films deserving such pointless comments?

I told you when I came I was a stranger

[–] Giulietta_degli_spiriti 17 years ago

Well, it's not pointless at all. Bergman is really much better than Woody. Simple like that! You know these two titles movies that I don't even know, - actually I know "Night at the museum" but I don't know the other one. But I don't have any problems to watch different kinds of movies or criticize them, do you have? By the way, if you like Woody Allen, I really don't care. Bergman is much better, much more talented, that's the truth. (you put more "u" and "e" in my lines! lol)

[–] marloweisdead 17 years ago

You're expressing opinion as fact. Why is that?

I told you when I came I was a stranger

[–] Giulietta_degli_spiriti 17 years ago

You're expressing fact as opinion. Why is that? (I mean, there are some truths on Earth. As the fact that Bergman is really much more talented that Allen - and more sensitive, and more subtle and more... (I'd use more words for that If I could speak English better) - Allen is inspired by Bergman, that's a huge difference, please!)

[–] mlumiere 15 years ago

It's implied in reviews and comments that these are the reviewers'/commenters' opinions, not facts. A reader of average intelligence should be able to distinguish which statements from a reviewer or commenter are opinions and which are facts. There is no need to label each as such.

[–] marloweisdead 15 years ago

That's a dangerous game to play - and the reply before yours seems to contradict it.

[–] puzzle_queen 13 years ago

Taste is subjective. It might be better to say "personally I like Bergman as a film maker more than Allen."
Marianne

[–] vinceharris-1 17 years ago

tried watching wild strawberries when it aired on the ovation channel. the pacing seemed very slow, but i think that was because the cast was predominately sweedish and unknown to american audiences. unlike another woman.
vince

[–] bunnywithanaxe 16 years ago

I think Allen uses music a lot more than Bergman does-- that can effect somebody's sense of the pace as well.

[–] panchro-press 16 years ago

Ah! Taste mongering. Beethoven was good, but Mozart was better.

-30-

[–] wobblythoughts 16 years ago

Taste mongering! Excellent coining! I hope the alarmist tone of my post wasn't taken as such: personally I think ranking who was better among two or more great artists is missing the point.

But we all know who was the greatest composer of all time forever ad infinitum, and he wasn't a madman I'll tell you that!

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[–] claudja777 10 years ago

Seriously? I saw smulltronstallet like 12 years before and if I am not wrong is about

1)how we only love once and then we're done (possibly also.. how first love is only the very first true love we have cause we're young free and beautiful when it happens)

and another women is about

1)how being cheaten on is such a shacky thing for women that changes them forever and stays like a scar inside, n matter if after that you go on.