Winter Light - 7

Ingmar Bergman's second in the trilogy of faith. This film follows a day of services with a priest (Lutheran rather than Catholic- he was married) in a small town. The scenes in the church service are very well done (Bergman's father was a Lutheran priest in Sweden). The priest comes to realize that he is losing his faith since it does not make sense of his life and the lives of his parishioners. The dialogue is very philosophical and the film cannot help but engage the audience in dialogue about issues of faith. The trilogy chronicles Bergman's view of faith, from certainty to skepticism -a spider God- and ultimately ends with silence.