June 6, 1997
Winter Guest (1997) **
An unsuccessful attempt to recapture the mood and feel of an Ingmar Bergman film. All the right ingridients are there: a small town in Northern Europe, a cold winter day, psychologically complex protagonists, an episodic structure, lots of talk and even more silence. What's missing is a masterful director. Rent Bergman's "Winter Light" (1962) instead.