Ingmar Bergman: Wild Strawberries http://film.guardian.co.uk/Century_Of_Films/Story/0,,56897,00.html
Derek Malcolm Thursday June 10, 1999 Guardian Unlimited
It is said, with some truth, that there are three major film-makers who empty cinemas these days: Bergman, Godard and Chaplin. In Bergman's case, it is almost certainly because the 'gloomy Swede' tag has taken root. There's just enough truth in the travesty to allow one to sympathise. After all, didn't he envisage God as a spider in Through A Glass Darkly? But he also made one of the most subtle of Mozartian romantic comedies in Smiles Of A Summer Night, and Fanny and Alexander, his last major film, could hardly be called depressing. http://film.guardian.co.uk/Century_Of_Films/Story/0,,56897,00.html