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  • 1962
  • Not Rated
  • Janus Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 1962
  • Not Rated
  • Janus Films
  • 1 h 30 m
Through a Glass Darkly

Summary While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family’s already fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Harriet Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, the father (Gunnar Björnstrand), along with Karin’s husband (Max von Sydow) and her younge...

Directed By: Ingmar Bergman

Written By: Ingmar Bergman

  • 1962
  • Not Rated
  • Janus Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 1962
  • Not Rated
  • Janus Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Through a Glass Darkly

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Summary While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family’s already fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Harriet Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, the father (Gunnar Björnstrand), along with Karin’s husband (Max von Sydow) and her younge...

Directed By: Ingmar Bergman

Written By: Ingmar Bergman

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100
Not a pleasant film, it is a great one.
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100
You can freeze almost any frame of this film and be looking at a striking still photograph. Nothing is done casually.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
80
It has a simple, straight cinematic form, unifying a little tangle of experience within a modest frame. It may strike one as slight and disappointing alongside the intellectual magnitude of such as his film "The Seventh Seal." But it suggests a new mood of its author—introspective, troubled, cold.
By Bosley Crowther FULL REVIEW
80
For the eye and for the spirit, it is a study in varying shades of gray.
By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW
80
Elaborately rhetorical at the end, this 1961 film nevertheless develops its theme lucidly and with some of Bergman’s most unforgettable sequences.
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75
The usual fine performances from Bergman's regulars combined with a script that is not as ponderous as much of the director's other works earned THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1961 and an Oscar nomination in 1962 for Best Screenplay.
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This is a noble attempt to shed light on a woman's inner struggle for existence. [02 Jul 2011, p.43]
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Production Company Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
Release Date Mar 13, 1962
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline "For now we see though a glass darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then I shall know even as also I am known" I Corinthians 13:12
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 2 Nominations

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