In Good Faith

“God, why have you created me so eternally dissatisfied?” asks Ingrid Thulin’s schoolteacher in Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light—and it is questions such as these that echo through the films in this series, works steeped in obsessive devotion, existential terror, and the occasional burst of impious laughter. Featuring the naughty nuns of Black Narcissus and Benedetta, the cockeyed gospels of Monty Python’s Life of Brian (“I think it was ‘Blessed are the cheesemakers’…”) and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and anguished men of the cloth confronted with Real Evil, both supernatural (The Exorcist) and manmade (First Reformed), In Good Faith will leave you a True Believer… in cinema, at the very least.