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A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman - Criterion Collection (Through a Glass Darkly/Winter Light/The Silence) DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780027015
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780027019
Label: Home Vision Entertainment
Manufacturer: Home Vision Entertainment
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Home Vision Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Running Time: 410 minutes
Sales Rank: 12687
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: February 03, 1964
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At the beginning of the 1960s, renowned film director Ingmar Bergman began work on what were to become some of his most powerful and representative works—the Trilogy. Already a figure of tremendous international acclaim for such masterworks as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and The Virgin Spring, Bergman turned his back on the abundant symbolism and exotic imagery of his ‘50s work to focus on a series of impacted, emotionally explosive chamber dramas examining faith and alienation in the modern age. Utilizing a new cameraman—the incomparable Sven Nykvist—Bergman unleashed Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence in rapid succession, exposing moviegoers worldwide to a new level of intellectual and emotional intensity. Each film employs minimal dialogue, eerily isolated settings, and searing performances from such Bergman regulars as Max von Sydow, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom in their evocation of a desperate world confronted with God’s desertion. Drawing on Bergman’s own severely religious upbringing and ensuing spiritual crisis, the films in the Trilogy are deeply personal, challenging, and enriching works that exhibit the filmmaker’s peerless formal mastery and fierce intelligence. The Criterion Collection is proud to present The Ingmar Bergman Trilogy: Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence.
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Between 1961 and 1963, Ingmar Bergman released a remarkable trilogy of so-called chamber dramas, each one concerned with the futility of sustaining faith in God, family, love, or much else. The series proved transitional for the internationally renowned Swedish filmmaker, securing his crucial collaboration with cinematographer Sven Nykvist (with whom Bergman would go on to make his many masterpieces--including Persona and Cries and Whispers--of the '60s, '70s, and early '80s), and underscoring a new preference for intimate, relationship-driven stories, austere settings, and haunting tones of emotional isolation and despair.
Through a Glass Darkly concerns a psychologically fragile woman, Karin (Harriet Andersson), who seeks recovery from a nervous breakdown while on a remote-island vacation with her family. 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, and her brother (Lars Passgard) is wrapped up in his own quest for sexual fulfillment. Karin's descent into further loneliness and delusion exacerbates the heretofore unspoken alienation at the heart of this entire family, and drives the characters to brood over the existence of God (or, in Karin's case, imagine that God is the chilling spider hidden behind an attic door). Through a Glass Darkly is a heartbreaking, powerful work of art.
Winter Light reunites Björnstrand, this time playing a pastor suffering a crisis of faith while ministering to a shrinking congregation, and Von Sydow as a parishioner lost to acute anxiety over the possibility of a nuclear holocaust. Neither man can help or heal the other, or even inspire renewed confidence in practiced rituals and older, more certain views of the world. Set on a chilly, Sunday afternoon, Winter Light's heavy stillness, lack of music, preference for intense close-ups and distancing long shots, and barren setting all lead us inescapably into the core of a profound silence, an echo chamber in which love can't grow and religion rings hollow.
The Silence is the most abstract entry in the trilogy, a somewhat eerie story of two sisters, Esther (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindblom), and the latter's son (Jörgen Lindström), all traveling by train to Sweden but forced to stay in a foreign country when Esther's chronic bronchial problems require her to rest. A stifling atmosphere, a desolate hotel, encounters with a troupe of carnival dwarves, Anna's anchoring illness, and an empty sexual encounter for Esther underscore the unnerving feeling that God has abandoned these characters to dubious salvation in their own connection. A highly memorable film. --Tom Keogh
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After "Four Masterworks", this is definately the best Bergman boxset. Some veiwers may find the few, very brief, sexual scenes in "The Silence", a lttle offensive, or possibly pleasant- I can't resist saying that when Gunnel Lindblom uses a wash=basin in the hotel room for a few seconds, that, (although completely innocent), it's still one of the sexiest things I've ever seen. One of those simple things, that far outweighs anything that goes way out of it's way to be sexy! But really, it's the story ... Read More
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Ingmar Bergman's three films between 1961 and 1963 have often been grouped together as the "Chamber Trilogy". Smitted by his newlywed wife, the Estonian pianist Kabi Lareti, Bergman compared the simple plots and small casts of SASOM I EN SPEGEL (Through a Glass Darkly), NATTVARDSGAESTERNA (The Communicants, released in the US as "Winter Light") and TYSNADEN (The Silence) to chamber music. He even linked the three together, calling the first two meditations on religious certainty and the third their "negative ... Read More
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In Green Eyes, when asked to comment on fellow filmmakers, Marguerite Duras extolled Bresson and Tati while dismissing Bergman as the equivalent of hot air. Duras, who supposedly only wrote two of her novels in a state of sobriety, was being, along with some other critics, unfair, needlessly harsh. Since when is it hot air to engage in ideas? Sure, once in a while the ideas, the philosophy, is right there almost as a character in its own right or an overly obvious symbol. But if it makes you think, if the ... Read More
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Although presented as a trilogy, these stark, somber chamber pieces tell distinct stories. But they are tied together by an overlapping theme: God's silence.
Through a Glass Darkly's religious theme is already declared in its title. It is also apparent in the symbolic representation of crosses and crucifixion throughout the movie. The story revolves around a young woman's psychological disintegration. Her schizophrenia, inherited from her mother, is exacerbated by her distant, suicidal father, a ... Read More
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A God steps down from the mountain: "Through a Glass Darkly"
Although Bergman considers "Through a Glass Darkly" to be a failure (and, to a certain extent, I agree), it was an important step (he says) in liberating himself from the gloomy Lutheran theology of his childhood. Ostensibly, the story is about the relapse of Karin (Harriet Andersson) into mental illness--a relapse, one suspects, which is incurable. Karin is convinced that a god lives on the other side of a strangely papered wall (in fact, ... Read More
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