Winter Light – Albert Norton, author

Winter Light — Marta

AlbertJune 5, 2016

In Winter Light – Jonas Persson, we considered Ingmar Bergman’s remarkable 1963 film Winter Light, and in particular a point about the despondency of Jonas Persson, and how the main character, clergyman Tomas, dealt with it. Now we look at Tomas’ interaction with another of the characters, Marta. Marta is Tomas’ atheist girlfriend. Throughout, we […]

Winter Light — Jonas Persson

AlbertJune 4, 2016June 4, 2016

If you haven’t seen Winter Light, a 1963 Ingmar Bergman film, you should. It’s available on youtube. You can invest an hour and fifteen minutes now, and have a distillation of the views that many have of Christianity today. The primary figure in the movie (“protagonist” doesn’t seem apt) is Tomas, a disaffected and disillusioned clergyman […]