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Through a Glass Darkly

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1961

Ingmar Bergman

Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgard

7.7

4,636

Drama A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate husband (Max von Sydow). They are joined by Karin's father (Gunnar Björnstrand), who is a world-traveling author that is estranged to his children. The film depicts how Karin's grip on reality slowly slips away and how the bonds between the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"You can freeze almost any frame of this film and be looking at a striking still photograph (...) There is a focus almost painfully intense (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Tightly constructed (...) Harriet Andersson is beautifully expressive (...) It may strike one as slight and disappointing alongside the intellectual magnitude of such as his film 'The Seventh Seal'."	NEU
United Kingdom	Nigel Floyd Time Out	"[It preserves] a strict unity of time and place"	POS
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"[It] develops its theme lucidly and with some of Bergman's most unforgettable sequences"	POS
United States	Variety	"Not a pleasant film, it is a great one"	POS
United States	Walter Goodman The New York Times	"The concluding message about love and God seems imposed. But the encounters (...) are powerfully joined (...) The acting is finely modulated"	NEU
United States	Time	"One of the best and certainly the ripest of Ingmar Bergman's creations, a film as subtle as 'Wild Strawberries' but solider in substance"	POS

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