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Winter Light. Ingmar Bergman probes deeper into religious philosophy in this relentlessly somber and icily beautiful film about an afternoon in the life of a Swedish pastor who finds himself unable to help or love others because he fears that he himself is beyond the help or love...
...tired of Ingmar Bergman's allegorical peasants and have had your very Last Year at Marienbad, the movie to see is Doctor No. All the sex, sadism and snobbery that enrich Ian Fleming's novels about British secret agent James Bond are enthusiastically here in the color they deserve...
Winter Light. Sweden's cinematic poltergeist, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, once more haunts the dark and chilly corridors where Man loses God, and once more the soul in torment seems to be his own. Bergman is the son of an austere Evangelical Lutheran parson who molded the boy with icy constraint and puritanical tyranny, and of a mother who was remote from both son and husband. To Bergman his parents were "sealed in iron caskets." This boyhood gave him the permeating motifs for his work: "God and the Devil, Life and Death, the drama of the couple...
...rnstrand) serves Communion as if he were an actor in a play near the end of a long run-withdrawn, saying the words without compassion. The contrast between this remoteness and the fervor on the faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman (Max von Sydow) sick with world-sadness because "the Chinese now have an atom bomb," the pastor starts a confident trust-in-God homily that turns by stages into...
...through the suicide, the ordeal of the schoolteacher and the verger's measuring of pain, spoken a lesson of his authority and man's humbleness? Bergman draws no conclusions. Doubt darkens the ending: the pastor stands rigidly before the altar to begin a prayer to his unfelt and perhaps unfeeling...