Wild Strawberries - 5

An interesting Ingmar Bergman film about growing old. It is interesting but hard to watch when you are tired and not in the mood to read the subtitles (it is in Swedish). The main character, Isak, is a retired medical doctor who travels with his daughter in-law and her friends to receive an honorary degree. On the way he talks about his loneliness in old age and the regrets he has about his marriage and other parts of his past. It is a slow moving film but has some thoughtful insights into broken relationships and complexity of living with others. In some way this film is similar to Magnolia, in that Isak is dealing with the regrets of the past, trying to see the meaning in his life, and passing it on to the next generation.