What to expect
Ingmar Bergman joins lucid road-movie encounters to dream images that make regret physically present. Victor Sjöström’s quiet performance gives the film warmth without softening its examination of pride and emotional distance.
How to ease in
Treat the journey as the spine and the dreams as emotional evidence, not puzzles with one solution. The film becomes gentler as Isak begins to listen rather than judge.
Heads-up
An elderly professor’s road journey opens into dreams, memories, and an unsparing look at the life behind him.
At first I felt Isak's coldness and kept my distance too. But as we moved through his dreams and memories, it seemed as if a man who had spent years pushing people away was finally catching up with his own loneliness.
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At first I felt Isak's coldness and kept my distance too. But as we moved through his dreams and memories, it seemed as if a man who had spent years pushing people away was finally catching up with his own loneliness. Perhaps we cannot redo the past, but if the past begins to look different, we may still change a little.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Cast
- Victor Sjöström — Professor Isak Borg · Bibi Andersson — Sara (Isak's cousin) / Sara (the hitchhiker) · Ingrid Thulin — Marianne Borg · Gunnar Björnstrand — Evald Borg
- Screenplay
- Ingmar Bergman
- Production
- Svensk Filmindustri
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