Saturday | January 12, 2008 9:00 pm

Through a Glass, Darkly
(Såsom i en spegel)

Screening on Film

Directed by Ingmar Bergman.
With Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow.
Sweden, 1961, 35mm, black & white, 89 min.
Swedish with English subtitles.

Perhaps Bergman’s greatest film, Through a Glass Darkly renders a fragile woman’s descent into insanity as a cruel and beautiful poem. Harriet Andersson brings a dangerous incandescence to Karin, whose mental disintegration unleashes long buried incestuous passion and transforms her fits of religious ecstasy into harrowing visions of an uncaring, punishing god.