![]() ![]() It incorporates our fears and our hopes regarding the fragility of life and the mystery of the eternal, and demonstrates that time and timelessness are always connected. That the movie may be viewed on both literal and allegorical levels allows it to transcend most films of this type it is neither somber nor sentimental. In ninety taut minutes, Bergman meditates upon youth and age, the persistence of memory and the past, interpretations of eternity, death and judgment and reconciliation and acceptance. ![]() The film, which premiered in 1957-the same year as the release of “The Seventh Seal,” Bergman’s other masterful meditation upon faith and death-remains a phenomenal achievement. Eliot’s beautiful evocation of the communion of souls from “The Four Quartets”-“We die with the dying:/See, they depart, and we go with them./We are born with the dead:/See, they return, and bring us with them”-is visually expressed in Ingmar Bergman’s film “Wild Strawberries,” which remains one of the great masterpieces of world Christian cinema. ![]()
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