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Såsom i en spegel (Through a Glass Darkly) from 1961 is the first movie in Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy A Film Trilogy. A trilogy about Bergman’s personal relationship to God and religion. The film is an interesting milestone in Bergman’s career and life since he started to have a different approach to making movies and he also discovered Fårö, the island he fell in love with and later move to. He also won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. The film is about a family that are meeting up on a remote island. The father, David is a writer who have just come home from writing a novel in Switzerland, a novel that exploits his daughter Karin’s schizophrenia. Something she discovers on the island, there is now a tense feeling between the family, and Minus, the youngest son is having problems feeling acceptance by his father. The movie plays in the typical style of a Bergman movie, with tense dialogue, beautiful photography (by Sven Nykvist) and great acting. Personally I find the movie worth just watching because of my favorite actor couple, Max Von Sydow and Gunnar Björnstrand. Harriet Andersson and Lars Passgård are also great as siblings. The acting is especially evident in the movie since these four actors are the only actors, creating a very theatrical approach while also making the audience come closer to the characters. A very inspiring movie to say the least.