Through A Glass Darkly
Part of the Ingmar Bergman From The Inside Out
| Director: | Ingman Bergman |
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| Certificate: | Unknown |
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| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | Swedish (English Subtitles) |
| Country: | Sweden |
"You can freeze almost any frame of this film and be looking at a striking still photograph." - Film Critic Roger Ebert.
This film is Bergman's study of a world without love: Karin slides inexorably into madness, losing her hold on the world, as she is trapped in a male world of repressed feelings.
REVIEWS
"Through a Glass Darkly is one of the best and certainly the ripest of Ingmar Bergman's creations, a film as subtle as Wild Strawberries but solider in substance." - TIME MAGAZINE
"It is almost superfluous to note that the film is beautifully made: visually exquisite, ingeniously knit." - THE NEW REPUBLIC
"Elaborately rhetorical at the end, this 1961 film nevertheless develops its theme lucidly and with some of Bergman's most unforgettable sequences." - CHICAGO READER
"Not a pleasant film, it is a great one." - VARIETY
"Bergman's mastery with actors (there is absolutely never a bad performance in a single one of his films) and with the cinematic form (using space and mood to communicate his theme) is abundantly clear here." - CINEMA WRITER
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Other films in the Ingmar Bergman From The Inside Out:
01
Film: The Seventh Seal
1 Sep 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Widely recognised as an absolute masterpiece, The Seventh Seal “marked a turning point in cinema and asserted film as a medium that could ponder life, death and existential angst” (The Telegraph). Using the rich metaphorical outer sheath of a mediaeval setting and a game of chess, Bergman explores our relationship with death.
08
Film: Wild Strawberries
8 Sep 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Winning the Golden Globe for best Foreign Film and the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Wild Strawberries "has a compassionate view of life that best illustrates the more optimistic side of Bergman's puzzled humanity." (THE GUARDIAN). A crabby old professor goes to collect an award and on his journey reconnects with the lyricism of his youth.
22
Film: Persona
22 Sep 2013, 7:30 p.m.
"I said that Persona saved my life—that is no exaggeration. If I had not found the strength to make that film, I would probably have been all washed up" - Bergman. Absolutely stunning film about how power, jealousy, care and love can all come into play in one relationship, between a nurse and her patient.