Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, the last feature I have seen (again) in 2025, last night – you have more than five thousand notes on films from The NYT Best 1,000 Movies and other pages, along with another five thousand or so reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites waiting for you on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you could even subscribe

 

Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, the last feature I have seen (again) in 2025, last night – you have more than five thousand notes on films from The NYT Best 1,000 Movies and other pages, along with another five thousand or so reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites waiting for you on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you could even subscribe

 

 

9 out of 10

 

Ingmar Bergman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/through-glass-darkly-written-and.html was one of the greatest film makers of all time and I have started watching again his magnum opera, the first in line was Wild Strawberries, the last pleasure of 2025, otherwise a quite unsettling year financially, and emotionally

 

I have seen Sentimental Value https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/sentimental-value-written-by-eskil-vogt.html a few days ago, and that was some experience- I also have issues with my daughter, just like the father in the film, and the hope is that they will be solved, again, as it happens in the Scandinavian feature

However, the reason I mentioned Sentimental Value, besides the fact that is very good and Scandinavian, is that the actor in the role of the film maker, Stellan Skarsgard I think is the name, mentioned Ingmar Bergman and the fact that the latter was a Nazi, not because he had to, but voluntarily

 

Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg is the main character of the narrative, he is eighty (I think) and they will celebrate him at the university on this day, when he has some bizarre dreams, about death in particular, he decides to take the car, and his maid is upset because of this, they have a complex relationship, as if they were married

Marianne Borg is staying in the house, and we will get to hear her story and drama, she wants to travel with the professor, who is her father-in-law, she opens up and says first that he is a very cold man, then she tells him about the tension between her and his son, Evald, played by one of the great actors who worked so often with Ingmar Bergman, Gunnar Björnstrand, indeed, Marianne has left her home and husband

 

She had told him that she is pregnant, and he wants her to decide between the baby and him, he does not want children to be brought in this world: his wish is to be dead, stone dead, so we have here a more than sad figure- once we meet the professor’s mother, we hear Marianne observing on how cold she is and we see a trend here

Most of Ingmar Bergman’s motion pictures are tragedies https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/cries-whispers-written-and-directed-by.html nevertheless, Wild Strawberries has humor, on the way to the festivities, they stop at the house of the Borg family and we look into the past

 

Merriment is combined with sadness, Isak Borg was in love with a cousin, we see them kissing in the middle of nature, then at the table other relatives laugh on their account, some children had seen them, and they are ridiculed, but then this girl would marry Isak’s brother- on the road, there is an accident and another passage of drama

Death, marriage trouble, coldness, giving birth, emptiness are contemplated, so that I could forget for a while about the trouble at the company, which had no profit last year, and then the distance separating me from my daughter, who does not respect me that much, mostly because of my mistakes, but maybe she will find forgiveness in time

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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