Wild Strawberries (1957)

Wild Strawberries parents guide

There is no US rating to lean on. What we tagged stays mild: no real violence and no gore.

Scare

Not scary

Jump scares

None noted

Gore

No gore

Violence

No real violence

Sex and nudity

None flagged

It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.

Language

None flagged

It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.

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What is Wild Strawberries about?

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Cast and crew

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Wild Strawberries is on our Slow burns, Road trips, Classics (pre-1970), Drama on Max and Criterion lists.

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• “a movie that will make me cry”
• “funny but not stupid, under two hours”
• “a thriller with a twist, no spoilers”

Lists with the same feel: Melancholy and Weird and surreal.