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V012

Such a fun film. Bring the kids.

10 years 3 months ago

pitchorneirda

I guess all protestantism is contained in this film.

10 years 9 months ago

deadendjob

A truly great, defining example of Bergman's work. There is nothing about this film I don't like. A masterpiece. 10/10

13 years 1 month ago

Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman's exploration of faith and doubt stars Gunnar Björnstrand as a troubled pastor, Tomas, just going through the motions and hearing nothing but silence from God. Set between two services, mere hours apart, this is an intimate and subtle piece that could have been done as a play. What most jumps out at me is Tomas' hubris, a function of the first Deadly Sin pride, and the reason he feels cut off from his own spirituality. In one telling speech, he admits that his naive younger self became a clergyman because he saw God as a function of himself, an ideal that seemed only possible to a young man. Now that he has suffered, he doubts, if not God's existence, then God's interest in humanity. Fact is, he's still interpreting God through himself. He tries to comfort a suicidal man, but can't because he is himself despondent. A woman loves him, but he hates her for reminding him of his dead wife. He rejects her love just as he rejects God's, indeed just as he rejects his idealistic self. If the Divine Spark is in ourselves, and each person their own God or echo of God (according to your beliefs), the Tomas' nihilism is laced with self-hatred, which he projects onto the people in his life and his God. Pride not as self-love, but as self-hatred. Does he, by the end, reconnect? Some have called the ending ambiguous. I rather think he continues to miss the point of the lessons he should learn through the course of the film. At the end, the cycle merely repeats. Or am I projecting my own attitudes upon it?

5 years 3 months ago

monty

"I'm very fond of it. I actually think it's the film that's closest to me because for once I've made what I consider to be a brave film." - I. Bergman

9 years ago

Dieguito

Thoughtful, religious with a battle between life and death.. Typical Bergman

12 years 5 months ago

cinemanotebooks

Bergman felt this to be his best film. I wholeheartedly agree. Absolutely stunning.

13 years 8 months ago

kayadams

favourite bergman :)

11 years 8 months ago

locovoco

Along the cinematic path of life, one finds movies...and then through the forest of films one starts to see Movies...and, if one is lucky enough, he or she may stumble upon a MOVIE in the valley of visuals...but every so often, on that rare occasion, you climb the mountain of motion pictures and discover a MOVIE!...such is Winter Light...enough said

8 years 3 months ago

ClassicLady

A little disappointed by the ending but otherwise a very haunting movie.

10 years 7 months ago

nicolaskrizan

cold

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9 years 6 months ago