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You can watch Wild Strawberries (1957) for free on Kanopy.

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.

Dreamlike sequences blur the line between a roadside journey and the fragmented memories of a lonely man's past. This quiet meditation on regret replaces typical cinematic drama with profound, surrealist glimpses into a life half-lived.

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