Winter Light (1963)
(Nattvardsgästerna)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 80m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max Von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom
Synopsis:
A priest who has lost his faith since the death of his beloved wife finds himself powerless to help a man in spiritual distress, and is disgusted by the schoolmistress who offers him love.
Review:
The second in a trilogy completed by The Silence, itself evoked by the haunting phrase 'the silence of God', voiced here in the context both of the pastor and of Christ in Gethsemane. Where Through a Glass Darkly posited almost optimistically that the proof of God was the existence of love, and that maybe God was Love, this film having namechecked that concept poses the question of what happens if you don't have any love left. In this land apparently in perpetual thrall to oncoming night, Bergman makes of this commonplace theological conundrum something disturbing in its stark simplicity, exposing his characters through a ruthless exclusion of all irrelevant incident or external human contact.
(Nattvardsgästerna)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 80m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max Von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom
Synopsis:
A priest who has lost his faith since the death of his beloved wife finds himself powerless to help a man in spiritual distress, and is disgusted by the schoolmistress who offers him love.
Review:
The second in a trilogy completed by The Silence, itself evoked by the haunting phrase 'the silence of God', voiced here in the context both of the pastor and of Christ in Gethsemane. Where Through a Glass Darkly posited almost optimistically that the proof of God was the existence of love, and that maybe God was Love, this film having namechecked that concept poses the question of what happens if you don't have any love left. In this land apparently in perpetual thrall to oncoming night, Bergman makes of this commonplace theological conundrum something disturbing in its stark simplicity, exposing his characters through a ruthless exclusion of all irrelevant incident or external human contact.
(Nattvardsgästerna)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 80m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max Von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom
Synopsis:
A priest who has lost his faith since the death of his beloved wife finds himself powerless to help a man in spiritual distress, and is disgusted by the schoolmistress who offers him love.
Review:
The second in a trilogy completed by The Silence, itself evoked by the haunting phrase 'the silence of God', voiced here in the context both of the pastor and of Christ in Gethsemane. Where Through a Glass Darkly posited almost optimistically that the proof of God was the existence of love, and that maybe God was Love, this film having namechecked that concept poses the question of what happens if you don't have any love left. In this land apparently in perpetual thrall to oncoming night, Bergman makes of this commonplace theological conundrum something disturbing in its stark simplicity, exposing his characters through a ruthless exclusion of all irrelevant incident or external human contact.