Winter Light

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First Reformed2018

Paul Schrader's clearest tribute to Bergman: a small-town pastor's certainty curdles into despair as he counsels a man who's lost hope in the world itself. Ethan Hawke gives the performance of his career.

But The final act swerves into something stranger and more violent than the slow-burn realism that precedes it.

Silence2016

Scorsese's decades-long passion project: two Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan forced to choose between faith and survival, shot with the same reverence for suffering and silence.

But Nearly three hours of relentless spiritual anguish with almost no relief — it demands patience most films don't.

Calvary2014

A good priest is told he'll be murdered in a week for the sins of the Church, and spends his last days visiting a village that mostly despises him. Bleak, blackly funny, quietly devastating.

But The comedy is dry to the point of vanishing, and the ending offers no comfort at all.

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Cast

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  Ingrid ThulinMärta Lundberg
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  Gunnar BjörnstrandTomas Ericsson
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  Gunnel LindblomKarin Persson
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  Max von SydowJonas Persson
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  Allan EdwallAlgot Frövik
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  Kolbjörn KnudsenKnut Aronsson
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  Olof ThunbergFredrik Blom
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  Elsa Ebbesen-ThornbladMagdalena Ledfors
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  Tor BorongJohan Åkerblom (uncredited)
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  Bertha SånnellHanna Appelblad (uncredited)
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  Helena PalmgrenDoris Appelblad (uncredited)
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  Eddie AxbergJohan Strand (uncredited)

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