Il posto delle fragole

Titolo originale: Smultronstället

1957
T
1h 32min

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Un anziano e rispettabile professore di medicina, mentre si reca all'università di Lund per ricevere un'onoreficienza si trova a fare il bilancio di un'esistenza giunta al suo crepuscolo e v... Leggi tuttoUn anziano e rispettabile professore di medicina, mentre si reca all'università di Lund per ricevere un'onoreficienza si trova a fare il bilancio di un'esistenza giunta al suo crepuscolo e vissuta con troppa freddezza nei rapporti con gli altri esseri umani.Un anziano e rispettabile professore di medicina, mentre si reca all'università di Lund per ricevere un'onoreficienza si trova a fare il bilancio di un'esistenza giunta al suo crepuscolo e vissuta con troppa freddezza nei rapporti con gli altri esseri umani.

Regia
- Ingmar Bergman
Sceneggiatura
- Ingmar Bergman
- Louis Sauvat
Star

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8,1/10

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Regia
- Ingmar Bergman
Sceneggiatura
- Ingmar Bergman
- Louis Sauvat
Star

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Film più votato #211

Candidato a 1 Oscar
- 16 vittorie e 4 candidature totali

Quiz
Ingmar Bergman has described in the interview how he came up with the idea while driving from Stockholm to Dalarna, stopping in Uppsala where he had been born and raised, and driving by outside his grandmother's old house, when he suddenly began to think about how it would be if he could open the door and inside it would be just as it had been during his childhood. "So it struck me - what if you could make a film about this; that you just walk up in a realistic way and open a door, and then you walk into your childhood, and then you open another door and come back to reality, and then you make a turn around a street corner and arrive in some other period of your existence, and everything goes on, lives. That was actually the idea behind Il posto delle fragole (1957)"

Blooper
It has been included as a continuity error that Marianne says she is going to go swimming at the old house, but when she returns her hair does not appear to be wet. This is not a continuity error, because when the film was shot in the late 1950s, and for at least a decade afterwards, at least in the Nordic countries women gathered their hair up and covered it with a special swimming cap to protect their hair from becoming wet. Some women who had grown up during those times used swimming caps as late as the 1980s, because they had grown up with the custom, and a swimming cap was to them just as integral part of swimming attire as a swimming suit.

Citazioni
Dr. Evald Borg: It's absurd to bring children into this world and think they'll be better off than we were.
Marianne Borg: That's just an excuse.
Dr. Evald Borg: Call it what you want. I was an unwanted child in a hellish marriage.

Connessioni
Featured in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)

Colonne sonore
KUNGLIGA SOEDERMANLANDS REGEMENTES MARSCH
(uncredited)
Music by Carl Axel Lundvall

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10/10

A cathartic viewing experience

I'd seen "Wild Strawberries" as a college freshman when it was first released, and knew right away I'd be a Bergman fan from then on.

I watched it again just last night, January 2004, at age 63, and needless to say got a whole different perspective on the film. Where the surrealist touches, moody photography, and incredibly smooth direction had made the big hit with me as a near boy, as an aging man I found myself--I hesitate to say painfully, but...well, closely--identifying with old Isak Borg in his strange pilgrimage, both interior and exterior, the day he receives his honorary degree at the cathedral in Lund.

In the last twenty minutes or so of the movie, I found tears running down my face, not from any thrilling sentimental browbeating (I doubt if Mr. Bergman shot five seconds' worth of sentimentality in his whole long career!) but simply from the cumulative emotional impact of this simple, powerful story and its probing revelation of human character, desire, and chagrin.

By the time the film ended, I felt wrung out, disoriented, happy and deeply sad at the same time: it's the experience the Greeks wanted their tragedies to convey to the spectator; they spoke of "katharsis." I experienced it firsthand when I had the great good fortune to see a production (in English) of "Medea." I walked away in tears and scarcely able to think straight for an hour or so.

The same thing happened with "Wild Strawberries." This is one of the handful of films I unhesitatingly rate a "ten."

A side note: I watched the Criterion Collection DVD. Before the film itself, I watched the hour-long interview conducted in 1998 by Jorn Donner included on the disc. It was remarkable to see how the film Bergman shot ca. 1957 contains many elements that were to be present in his later life--like a foreshadowing of his own old age.