The fading light

Have you heard of Ingmar Bergman? Have you seen his chamber films from the early 1960s? Do you like these films? Do you want to see a movie from an Irish director who is influenced by the master? If so then watch The fading light. It's actually quite impressive in a low-budget way: central location; small cast size; minimalist filmmaking; little lighting. The director is way ahead of other filmmakers here in that he actually has something to say. It's just a pity what he says has been done before. A dying woman (fading light?), her disabled son must be told, the house has to be got rid of, there's even an ambiguous suicide. Impressive stuff indeed in the sense that the director has great potential as soon as he moves away from Bergman's ideas. A pity these kind of films were never made here back in the '90s instead of that heritage rubbish. We could be producing great stuff by now?