Bergman 100
- Winter Light
- Nattvardsgästerna
- Sweden1963
- Ingmar Bergman
- 80 DCP
- G
Screening Dates
- March 30, 2018 6:30
- March 31, 2018 4:45
- April 1, 2018 8:20
“It is satisfying to see Winter Light after a quarter of a century. I believe that nothing in it has eroded or broken down.”
Ingmar Bergman, 1990
The silence of God resounds with a deafening, despairing clarity in Bergman’s masterfully austere Winter Light, one of the director’s most anguished explorations of spiritual emptiness. The middle work in the “Faith” trilogy that includes Through a Glass Darkly and The Silence, the film has Gunnar Björnstrand as a village pastor suffering a severe crisis of faith. Max von Sydow plays a parishioner with a debilitating fear of nuclear warfare who comes seeking spiritual comfort. Bergman’s superb cast also includes Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. The revealing close-ups and cold vistas of Sven Nykvist’s cinematography contribute greatly to the film’s bleak power and sense of spiritual and psychological suffering.