Through a Glass Darkly (1962)

I'm probably gonna catch some heat for this one, but I don't think this movie is all that great. It feels like Bergman directed by rote -- there's very little here that he hadn't already tackled and wouldn't tackle again with greater force and/or insight. While the schizophrenia plotline may have been inspired by the notion that the mentally ill are closer to God, it's still not convincing (the material about God feels awkwardly stuffed in as a mandatory trope). Thus, what normally in Bergman's work feels like the inexorable logic of a tortured soul here just comes off as arbitrary. It's a cold and unengaging film. You're all welcome to it if you must.

Grade: C