Anna Malberg,
Axel Strobye,
Baard Owe,
Bendt Rothe,
Ebbe Rode
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A young woman searches for her ideal lover and realizes no such person is possible.
DVD Release Date: September 9, 2008
Stats: 53 reviews
Dreyer's final film comes across contrived and stagey. Until you realize that that's the point. What a career this Danish filmmaker has had. From Vampyr to Gertrud, it's clear that he's continuously experimenting and pushing his boundaries. Gertrud is unlike anything else in 64'....( read more)
An essay piece, one of a kind ode to everlasting love. In what is almost an absolutely theatrical display of composition, this really manages to display and defend the premise of absolute love and all it naivete and show its disastrous consequences, a risk to take for something a...( read more)
I KNOW! Three? THREE?! Yeah, three. I gave the last one five-out-of-five and this one I'm giving three. I would have gone lower, but there are some really good shots and the concept itself is pretty solid.
I hate this review: "This movie is boring." What does that mea...( read more)
This probably doesn't deserve a 7, but out of all Dreyer's pictures, I was left extremely cold by this one. "The film where nobody looks at each other" is what I will call it from now on. It pains me to say that.
Too old of a movie to enjoy because the early days of movies with sound were not great for turning out quality looking stuff.
A painful film documenting the pain of love and the process one endures to attain it. Like Dreyer's other films, he utilises many slow still shots, emphasising the detail of the shots, the method that bamboozled so many critics in the early years of his film-making.
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