Am excited to be entering a stage of watching more Ingmar Bergman films. There are a great number out there and almost all are ones that have a storyline I would like to investigate.
This film is part of a trilogy and without realising this fact I have already seen the 2nd and 3rd in the list (Winter Light which wasn't too bad, and The Silence which was excellent) and so I have now completed the trilogy. I have always been curious about what the title of this movie means, but now understand that it centres around the main female character who has mental problems and thus looks at the world in a bizarre way, hence looking through a Dark Glass. The centre of the story is based around a son and daughter who appear to have a very strange relationship, almost bordering on incestuous and the daughter's husband and her father. These four characters go to a remote island for a short vacation and throughout the time, many things come to light and many relationships are tested. Bergman is superb at giving us a story usually only with a handful of characters which we are then forced to evaluate instead of overloading us with information and millions of faces we instead become close to the characters that he has presented.
A very moving and interesting portrait into human conditions done in a way which only Bergman knows how.
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