Old people are the joke of Hollywood. How often does one see sensitive, well rounded portrayals of elders? There was Simon Rumley's abstract indie The Living and the Dead, with the beleaguered Roger Lloyd-Pack attempting to care for his sick wife and deranged son. There was The Savages and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Or you could go back further, to Ingmar Bergman's 1957 art film Wild Strawberries.Doctor Isak Borg (Victor Sjöström) has been called many things. Cold. Hard-hearted. Cruel. In the midst of a late-life crisis, he questions all he is and has been, and faces mortality through a series of dreams.
