Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman 1957) w/ Aaron Strand (Behind the Slate Podcast)

Felicia is joined once again by Aaron Strand (listen to our first episode together on Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity) to discuss Ingmar Bergman’s exploration of an aging man’s past lives, in Wild Strawberries (1957).

We chat about how this film being a road movie keeps the momentum going and allows the audience to engage in all of Isak’s dream sequences.

We also talk about how Bergman was a workaholic and how it affected his interpersonal relationships and how that is reflected in the lead character.

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Sources:

https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/341-alan-rudolphs-top-10

OUTRO SONG:
Smultronstället by Björn Hallman

FILMS MENTIONED:
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder 1944)

Big Daddy (Dennis Dugan 1999)

Persona (Ingmar Bergma 1966)

Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman 1972)

The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman 1960)

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman 1957)

Bergman’s Island (Marie Nyreröd 2004)

Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman 1968)

Amour (Michael Haneke 2012)

Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch 2005)

Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu 1953)

Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore 1988)

The Swimmer (Frank Perry 1968)

Up (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson 2009)

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