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Winter Light
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
1963
80m
Not Rated
Drama
8
76%
91%
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A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
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Cast of Winter Light
Gunnar Björnstrand
Tomas Ericsson
Ingrid Thulin
Märta Lundberg
Max von Sydow
Jonas Persson
Gunnel Lindblom
Karin Persson
Allan Edwall
Algot Frövik
Kolbjörn Knudsen
Knut Aronsson
Olof Thunberg
Fredrik Blom
Elsa Ebbesen-Thornblad
Magdalena Ledfors
Tor Borong
Johan Åkerblom (uncredited)
Bertha Sånnell
Hanna Appelblad (uncredited)
Helena Palmgren
Doris Appelblad (uncredited)
Eddie Axberg
Johan Strand (uncredited)
Lars-Owe Carlberg
Police Inspector (uncredited)
Ingmari Hjort
Persson's Daughter (uncredited)
Stefan Larsson
Persson's Son (uncredited)
Johan Olafs
Gentleman (uncredited)
Lars-Olof Andersson
Fredriksson's Boy (uncredited)
Christer Öhman
Fredriksson's Boy (uncredited)
Winter Light Reviews
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
Mr. Bergman may not be praised for it, but he has made a thoughtful, engrossing, shocking film.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
This bleak chamber piece serves as Bergman's farewell to his Lutheran pastoral father's strict religious upbringing.
Cinema Writer
Jay Antani
a perfect film
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Clearly an influence on Paul Schrader's First Reformed.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
feels too much like it is wallowing in its despair, rather than grappling with it, which is what Bergman's best films do
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
[I] was awestruck by its bleak, courageous power.
Filmcritic.com
Jake Euker
Within the bare plot lies a treasure trove of subtleties.
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich
One of cinema's great comedies.
Boulder Weekly
Michael J. Casey
The trick of Bergman is that he finds his way from god's silence to Tomas's despair to Molly Bloom's heart going like mad announcing affirmations in triplicate without an ounce of comprise or concession.
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
A bleak and blunt film.
Premiere Magazine
Aaron Hillis
Bergman's by-far bleakest, but most challenging film ever.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Winter Light reduces, in essence, to listening for verbal revelations, for explorations of self in words. This is doubly disadvantageous in a sub-titled film (or a dubbed one), but it cannot be prime cinema even for Swedes.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Much suffering, none of it very illuminating.
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
My quarrel is not with the grimness of Mr. Bergman's moral, but with his failure to express it cinematically. Winter Light is exposition rather than drama.
Keith & the Movies
Keith Garlington
With "Winter Light" Bergman has made something that has all the exterior markings of a slow, uneventful drama. But underneath its austere finish is a provocative think piece; a movie with the sheer depth of meaning to challenge any thoughtful viewer.
Vague Visages
Marshall Shaffer
Bergman analyzes Christianity from several different angles. The result is a more holistic understanding and reckoning with an artist's views on God and religion.
TV Guide
Winter Light presents a philosophical and moral puzzle without providing any definite answers, which, considering the subject matter, is probably the way it should be.
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