It shouldn't be too surprising that Liv Ullmann's Faithless, based on a script that Ingmar Bergman wrote at the end of his life, would lead me to Bergman's own Wild Strawberries. I don't know if Wild Strawberries is my favorite Bergman film, but it would be in the running. It included many of those wonderful actors that you would expect to find in a Bergman film - Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow, and Gunnel Lindblom - but the story is focused around Victor Sjostrom, in his last role, as Isak Borg, an aged professor who decides to drive, both literally and metaphorically, to receive an honor. It probably also makes perfect sense that I'd be drawn to this film once again as I begin my last semester and pass another birthday. Like Isac Borg, I wish that I had beautiful childhood memories to recall here at the end - or maybe it would be better to say that I wish I had beautiful childhood memoires that I would let myself recall here at the end. Highly recommended.
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