For those who think legendary cine-Swede Ingmar Bergman's films are aloof and coldly austere, this warm, welcoming 1957 road movie of aged reflection - the inspiration for Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry - might come as a surprise. It centres on Isak Borg (Victor Sjöström), an elderly professor who, on his way to collect an academic award, initially seems unbearable: a "confirmed pedant", near dead inside, and reviled by his son and daughter-in-law for his "inflexibility".
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