However bleak, Day of Wrath is a masterpiece. See it.
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10/23/08
Day of Wrath (1943)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:20
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Carl Theodor Dreyer directed this austere and beautiful tragedy, set in 16th century Denmark. A pastor presides over a trial for witchcraft, ultimately finding the accused guilty. He sentences... [More]
Starring: Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, Sigrid Neiiendam
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Reviews for Day of Wrath
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Top CriticI'd be saving a spot for it near the top of my 10-best list if the movie hadn't been made 65 years ago.
08/28/08
Top CriticA stark, brooding treatment of adultery, incest, and murder, an elemental tragedy not so far from a James M. Cain triangle, albeit shot so as to deliberately evoke the Dutch masters.
08/28/08
Top CriticA lesser Dreyer work, but only in comparison with his own achievements.
08/27/08
Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1943 masterpiece begins as a film about seventeenth-century witch hunts in Northern Europe, but it’s really a psychological thriller about the pull of evil on weak souls.
08/25/08
Top CriticDryer's precision proves highly effective in creating the film's mood of dark oppression, and every detail is perfectly in keeping with the film's tone %u2013 which often resembles a thriller.
07/12/08
Dreyer's fluid, softly moving camera that takes in long, slow shots heightens the sensual nature of the film as well as its mystery.
02/29/08
Astonishing in its artistically informed period re-creation as well as its hypnotic mise en scene, it challenges the viewer by suggesting at times that witchcraft isn't so much an illusion as an activity produced by intolerance.
01/19/07
Top CriticNo review available.
03/18/06
There couldn't be a clearer statement made about the powerful who persecute their subjects in the name of religion.
07/26/05
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06/26/05
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01/14/05
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08/03/04
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07/30/04
Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1943 parable about witch-finding and witch-burning in 17th-century Denmark is coldly brilliant.
07/08/03
A compelling family melodrama and a sombre exploration of how men co-opt religious dogma to oppress and punish female desires.
06/01/03
The triple crosses of faith, doubt, and heresy are borne by Dreyer's characters across a cinematic landscape of darkness and light, shadow and substance.
03/10/03
Day of Wrath is probably the simplest of the Dreyer films that I've seen, but it is still a great work.
03/05/02
Dreyer was a master of conveying emotion in a way that can only be called "literary"
09/10/01
A study of good and evil, repression and oppression, sexuality and guilt, Day of Wrath is a truly spiritual film.
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