Review of Wild Strawberries (2012) by Fernando C — 02 Jun 2008
One of the most introspective films, though to our modern, numbed minds, it might be easy to judge this as overrated and too loose. The truth is that "Wild Strawberries" is a meditation on our mortality, relationships, faith, and the impending death.
Some critics call Isak Borg's life uninteresting, yet they forget that not everybody's life is a rollercoaster ride, and that doesn't make them less human nor interesting. Through an everyday existence, this films still questions such themes, making it only closer to us, and accesible.
Perhpas the greatest richness of the movie comes from reflecting on it afterwards, from analyzing and comparing to our own lives, as short or uneventful as they might have seemed. In other aspects, the picture is succesful: it has very good acting and music.
The cinematography is excellent, giving everything a nice oniric feel, an atmosphere of memory and passing of time. A triumph of world cinema.
This review of Wild Strawberries (2012) was written by Fernando C on 02 Jun 2008.
Wild Strawberries has generally received positive reviews.
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