God, give me a break Ingmar Bergman!!
This middle film in his "Silence" trilogy is unbearably depressing, bleak and hopeless. I've heard that Bergman had a disdain for film-making and didn't like it as a medium for telling his stories. One has to wonder, then, why he felt compelled to make so many films, especially when they all pound the same point into the ground over and over again.
He obviously had the same disdain for his audiences, as he decided to inflict his depressing frame of mind on all of us. "Winter Light" isn't a bad film technically, and I know I'm being a petulant reviewer here, but sometimes my gut emotional reaction completely outweighs any artistic considerations when looking at a film, and I just couldn't stand this, in my mind, nearly unwatchable movie.
Grade: D
This middle film in his "Silence" trilogy is unbearably depressing, bleak and hopeless. I've heard that Bergman had a disdain for film-making and didn't like it as a medium for telling his stories. One has to wonder, then, why he felt compelled to make so many films, especially when they all pound the same point into the ground over and over again.
He obviously had the same disdain for his audiences, as he decided to inflict his depressing frame of mind on all of us. "Winter Light" isn't a bad film technically, and I know I'm being a petulant reviewer here, but sometimes my gut emotional reaction completely outweighs any artistic considerations when looking at a film, and I just couldn't stand this, in my mind, nearly unwatchable movie.
Grade: D