Gertrud (1964)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:6
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.7/10
Synopsis: Adapted from Hjalmar Soderberg's 1919 play of the same title, GERTRUD tells the tale of a woman's search for idealized love and spiritual fulfillment, which takes her beyond the confines of a... [More]
Starring: Nina Pens Rode, Baard Owe, Ebbe Rode, Bendt Rothe
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Reviews for Gertrud
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What presents the most difficulty is its talkiness (prompting one critic to call it a 'two-hour study of sofas and pianos'), but it is in Dreyer's simple, noncinematic technique one realizes the purity of his vision. Full Review |
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Emotionally shattering as a masterful purely realistic cinema experience. Full Review |
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2/5 |
In his best films there has always been an underlying human concern that sustained us through any longueurs of execution. Here, under the slow, posed pictures, there is nothing but the dated theme described above. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Gertrud is a film that is as richly mysterious and inscrutable as it is earthy and wry. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A morose, utterly passionless film. Full Review |
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I would imagine that many would find it unwatchable, or would incorrectly deem it uncinematic, but it understands the language of cinema better than nearly any film that I've seen. Every cut, every pan, every zoom matters. Full Review |
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