I don't know if anyone else gets irritated by these things, but the accents in this are all over the place. Apart from Ingrid Bergman, all the actors are British. The film is set in London, indeed it makes a point of including several recognisable locations like Cleopatra's Needle on the Victoria Embankment and the magnificent Painted Hall at the Greenwich Royal Naval College. All the British actors speak in curious accents, which are mainly British RP but with a…
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Wild Strawberries 1957
Watched again on Blu-ray (Cinema Paradiso) 21/08/2022 and still very firmly in my Top 100. When I first saw it in 1995, in my 30s, its evocation of the melancholic nostalgia of an old man really affected me (though Ingmar Bergman wasn't yet 50 when he wrote and directed it). Interestingly, over 25 years later, when I'm considerably closer to the situation of Isak Borg, so magnificently depicted here by veteran director, Victor Sjöström, it doesn't have quite the same emotional punch but it's still astonishing and so fresh and unusual still.
