{"product_id":"winter-light-dvd","title":"WINTER LIGHT - DVD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIngmar Bergman's stark look at faith is the second part of a trilogy with 'Through a Glass Darkly' (1961) and 'The Silence' (1963). A pastor (Gunnar Bjornstrand) who seems to have lost his faith after his wife's death finds himself unable to give spiritual reassurance to a local fisherman (Max von Sydow), whose wife Marta (Ingrid Thulin) has long been in love with the pastor. As the pastor deals with his own demons and the (to him repulsive) advances of Marta he finds that God may still have some hold over him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmazon.co.uk Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe second of an Ingmar Bergman trilogy, 1962's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWinter Light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a deliberate repudiation of the \"God is love\" message of its predecessor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThrough a Glass Darkly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Gunnar Bjornstrand stars as Tomas, a pastor in a remote parish tending to a dwindling congregation, as tense and distracted as David--the novelist Bjornstrand plays in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThrough a Glass Darkly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He finds himself trying to counsel a local fisherman Jonas, who is plagued by a sense of impending atomic doom but realises that the religious platitudes he consoles him with--\"put your faith in the Lord\"--are mere drivel. He himself is wracked by religious doubts, unable to tolerate \"God's silence\" and unable to prevent the fisherman from committing suicide. He finds himself taking out his inner woe on his eczema-riddled mistress, played by an unflatteringly made up Ingrid Thulin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDescribed by Bergman's own wife as a \"dreary masterpiece\", the synopsis to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWinter Light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e seems almost comically miserable, yet this passion play is gripping in its unsparing bleakness, bathed in the stark illumination implied by the title, ironically akin to the light of a religious epiphany. Released at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, its preoccupations and all-pervasive anxieties are especially apt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOn the DVD:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Bergman's own notes reveal that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWinter Light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis among his own favourites and he explains the evolution of the film's ideas at some length. Critic Philip Strick's background notes reveal that Gunnar Bjornstrand was exhausted and ill for much of the making of the film, which doubtless enhanced his anguished performance here. --\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDavid Stubbs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TARTAN PALISADES","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46799764750510,"sku":"TVD3347","price":9.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/4614\/3918\/files\/winterlight1-lime-light.jpg?v=1755766771","url":"https:\/\/limelightcollection.co.uk\/en-eu\/products\/winter-light-dvd","provider":"Limelight Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}