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Winter Light [DVD] [1962]

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  • Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow, Allan Edwall
  • Directors: Ingmar Bergman
  • Writers: Ingmar Bergman
  • Producers: Allan Ekelund
  • Format: Black & White, PAL, Import
  • Language Swedish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Palisades Tartan
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Nov 2001
  • Run Time: 77 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005RY95
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28,341 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The second of an Ingmar Bergman trilogy, 1962's Winter Light is a deliberate repudiation of the "God is love" message of its predecessor Through a Glass Darkly. Gunnar Bjornstrand stars as Tomas, a pastor in a remote parish tending to a dwindling congregation, as tense and distracted as David--the novelist Bjornstrand plays in Through a Glass Darkly. He finds himself trying to counsel a local fisherman Jonas, who is plagued by a sense of impending atomic doom but realises that the religious platitudes he consoles him with--"put your faith in the Lord"--are mere drivel. He himself is wracked by religious doubts, unable to tolerate "God's silence" and unable to prevent the fisherman from committing suicide. He finds himself taking out his inner woe on his eczema-riddled mistress, played by an unflatteringly made up Ingrid Thulin.

Described by Bergman's own wife as a "dreary masterpiece", the synopsis to Winter Light seems almost comically miserable, yet this passion play is gripping in its unsparing bleakness, bathed in the stark illumination implied by the title, ironically akin to the light of a religious epiphany. Released at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, its preoccupations and all-pervasive anxieties are especially apt.

On the DVD: Bergman's own notes reveal that Winter Lightis among his own favourites and he explains the evolution of the film's ideas at some length. Critic Philip Strick's background notes reveal that Gunnar Bjornstrand was exhausted and ill for much of the making of the film, which doubtless enhanced his anguished performance here. --David Stubbs



Special Features

DVD 5
Swedish
Region 0
Dolby Digital Swedish
Dolby Digital
Star And Director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Philip Strick Film Notes
Extract From Bergmans Book Images My Life In Film
The Bergman Collection Trailer
English
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a brilliant, if flawed, meditation on faith, 29 Nov 2001
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Winter Light is one of the starkest of Bergman's films. The film opens with prayer, but it seems to be futile. The austere camera work and mercilous frraming points to a word in which God no longer listens, and His people no longer believe they will be heard. But on closer reflection, the film can also be viewed as an attack on the outward view of the main character of the pastor, a man so complacent in his own assumptions of God that he has rendered Him unreal and irrelevant. Gunnar Bjornstrand gives an emotionally powerful performance, as the pastor struggling to find comfort in a world that has become bereft of hope. Lacking many highly dramatic moments, the film can appear brittle, but it is always beautiful and is, at times, almost unbearably moving.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Bergman., 17 April 2006
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The second part of Bergman's trilogy of films on the existence of God, Winter Light depicts a village pastor whose faith is crumbling. The film follows his inability to find a way help a parishioner who is struggling with depression and a profound sense of futility, and his abortive and loveless relationship with the local schoolmistress. This is a sombre film with some wonderful performances, and was one of Bergman's favourites of his own films.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Agonised look at a draining of faith, 20 Nov 2000
This review is from: Winter Light [VHS] [1962] (VHS Tape)
This is the second in Bergman's "Faith" trilogy, bracketed by Through A Glass Darkly and The Silence.

It is perhaps the most downbeat of the three, with Bergman spinning out a yarn of a preacher attempting to fulfil his duties to a remote parish. The emptiness (of the church, for one) is excruciating, and the embarrassment of performing the old rituals to two or three people brings the preacher's torment to the fore. In his back room he quietly reveals to a close companion that he has no more faith.

The suicide of a lonely soul in his parish drives the nail home and the preacher is unable to continue without some tortuous self-examination, helped by some unsymapthetic parishoners.

An excellent performance by Gunnar Bjornstrand, who battled through a life-threatening illness to finish [and indeed carried on or many years], and an inspired piece of work, if a little desperate at times. But where would we be without the desperation?

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This Pastor, Tomas Ericsonn, has lost his faith and we see him going through the motions in a service. This film is the centrepiece of the trilogy on faith. Read more
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