Through A Glass Darkly (DVD)

...before and can stand the emotional turmoil that inevitably seeps through his earlier films then this is a worthy offering form a great director. 'Through A Glass Darkly' is available on DVD from Amazon.co.uk for £15.99 (+p&p) Thanks for reading and rating this opinion © Mauri 2004 ...

Mauri 05.09.2000 (09.02.2004) · Read full review
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The first thing to mention is a little known fact. This film is part of a trilogy: it is followed by 'Winter Lights' and 'The Silence'. So if one really wants to come to terms with what Bergman has to say about religion and God then all three should be watched. In spite of this 'Through a Glass Darkly' can very easily stand alone as a cinematic masterpiece. Nykvist's cinematography is something purely beautiful and each individual actor, without ...
...Sanity, Love, Sexuality, Artistic production, philosophy and more the film itself is bursting with meaning and the intellectual achievement on Bergman's part should not be underplayed. Although there are rather assertive overtone's of Freudian misogyny in the use of female hysteria yet one cannot necessarily mark this negatively. All in all it is a beautiful and thought-provoking watch and I would recommend it to all. Especially so to the fan of ...

spanner131 17.07.2009 · Read full review
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