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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: may 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...clique-minded; but most seem to be made up of dedicated Christians who have found that in company with a few fellow believers, they can learn about theology and the Bible and grapple with the concrete problems of living as a Christian in a secular society. Says Lutheran Pastor William R. Snyder, president of the Minneapolis Ministerial Association, and an ardent believer in the efficacy of such cells: "This is the way of the future for the church. We're only using Christ's strategy. He spoke to his 5,000, but he also spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: The Apostolic Few | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

Church bells ring on a winter Sunday in a Swedish coastal village. The devout -they number just nine-assemble in the drafty little stone building. The pastor (Gunnar Björnstrand) serves Communion as if he were an actor in a play near the end of a long run-withdrawn, saying the words without compassion.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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: God's Silence | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...afternoon, having told the fisherman's wife of her husband's suicide without managing to give her a morsel of faith or comfort, the pastor goes to conduct vespers at a church in a nearby parish. A crippled verger waits for him in the study before the service. "There is too much talk of Christ's physical suffering in the Bible; I've suffered as much as Christ, in a physical way," he says. "Christ's real suffering was on the Cross, faced with God's silence in the moment of horrible doubt before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: God's Silence | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: God's Silence | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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