Drama
Swedish (Såsom i en spegel)
1961 · Directed by Ingmar Bergman · 91 min
Over a summer day on a remote Baltic island, four people share a rented house: a young woman recently released from a psychiatric hospital, her husband, her teenage brother and their distant father. A quiet chamber drama about love, illness and the limits of what family can give.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of Bergman's shift from allegory and period settings to austere, contemporary chamber drama, and a key example of 1960s European art cinema turning inward on psychology and spiritual doubt.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a play of four people who cannot quite reach one another, with the island as an enclosed stage.
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