Through a Glass Darkly

Name: Through a Glass Darkly
Genre: Drama
Released: March 13, 1962
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 84
Cast: Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson, Lars Passgård, Max von Sydow

1962

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Janus Film | Release Date: March 13, 1962 | Not Rated

Starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson, Lars Passgård, Max von Sydow

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 youngerWhile 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 younger brother (Lars Passgård) are unable to prevent Karin’s harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness. [Janus Films]… Expand

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Roger Ebert

You can freeze almost any frame of this film and be looking at a striking still photograph. Nothing is done casually. Read full review

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Not a pleasant film, it is a great one. Read full review

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At every point, moreover, the actors are supported by Bergman's impressive cinematic skill. His script is a marvel of elision, speaking most eloquently in what it does not say. His photography is both poetic and worshipful. In every frame of the film the still light of subarctic summer silently instills an aspect of eternity, a sense of the presence of God. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

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. Read full review

Walter Goodman

The acting is finely modulated; Miss Andersson's flirtation with insanity is a ballet. And the austere beauty of Sven Nykvist's photography has an eloquence all its own. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

The Guardian Paul Howlett

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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