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While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family’s already fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Harriet Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, the father (Gunnar Björnstrand), along with Karin’s husband (Max von Sydow) and her younger brother (Lars Passgård) are unable to prevent Karin’s harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness. Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and featuring an astonishing lead performance by Andersson, Through a Glass Darkly presents an unflinching vision of a family’s near disintegration and a tortured psyche further taunted by God’s intangible presence.
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Three men, a father, brother and husband, all are connected to a woman, who is their daughter, sister and wife, and suffers with schizophrenia. In a 24 hour period, she rapidly declines into insanity. The symbolism is accessible, but deep enough to make you think it through. It is shot beautifully, edited to perfection, and top notch acting all around. This is the first part of a Bergman Trilogy along with “Winter Light” and “The Silence”.
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