Winter Light

Already well into director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's unusual narrative device, schoolteacher Marta (Ingrid Thulin) speaks to the camera, delivering the text of her letter to widower pastor Tomas (Gunnar Bjornstrand), who is unwilling to marry her, in Winter Light, 1963.

After services, desperate wife Karin (Gunnel Lindblom) brings her depressed and paranoid husband Jonas (Max Von Sydow) to consult with minister Tomas (Gunnar Bjornstrand) whom, we are discovering, is having his own crisis of faith, in Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light, 1963.

Director Ingmar Bergman could scarcely be more deliberate, nor the attendance much more sparse, as Gunnar Bjornstrand conducts services for Max Von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom, Ingrid Thulin, Elsa Ebbesen and a few others, opening the barren second film in Bergman's "Faiith Trilogy," WInter Light, 1963.