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- Release Date: 1961
- Runtime: 89 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård ... see all
- Director: Ingmar Bergman
- Plot: A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind,... Read more
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| Jul 24, 2008Chicago Sun-Times
The great subject of the cinema, Ingmar Bergman believed, is the human face.....The opening scenes are deliberately banal.... ... Full Review
| Feb 14, 2006Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie V
For viewers whetted on American cinema, it's refreshing to see these scenes filmed sans melodrama to focus on their too-realistic effects.....In "The Hour of the Wolf," Bergman depicts a tortured artist's nightmares with the surreal approach he used in "Persona....With the release of "The Virgin Spring" (1960), the Criterion Collection brings to DVD an important shift in the career of one of cinema's masters..... ... Full Review
| Mar 13, 1962RopeofSilicon
Through a Glass Darkly is a heartbreaking, powerful work of art.....Unfortunately, her father (Gunnar Björnstrand), a successful writer, regards her with clinical detachment, her husband (Max Von Sydow), a doctor, feels unavailing in the effort to treat her.... ... Full Review
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When the legendary Swedish director died in 2007, he said in his will that he wanted his estate and its belongings to be sold to the highest bidder and for the money to be shared equally between his nine children. ... Full Article
"There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. ... Full Article
Through a Glass Darkly
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2009-03-01
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'In my life, through The Search for Meaning and Australian Story, I have been given the wisdom of so many people's stories, and admired their struggles to keep faith in life through the hard times. ... Full Article
The middle part of Bergman's trilogy about God's silence - it is flanked by Through a Glass Darkly and The Silence - and the most austere, Winter Light focuses on a small group of parishioners found at the beginning of... ... Full Article
Mumbai: Palador Pictures and National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) have extended the Remembering Bergman - A Retrospective that is in the running in Mumbai by a week. ... Full Article