☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Ordet (1955) – C. T. Dreyer
A movie about
religious faith, lack of faith, and competing (Christian) faiths. When one
character has trouble with his sanity, another says it was Kierkegaard that did
it to him (so you know what kind of film this is). Dreyer is the master of the
slow pan, never really showing us the whole of a room (and all of the people in
it); in one shot he circles entirely around two characters, slowly so it took a
while for me to notice. In the end, the leap of faith does prove warranted, but
what happens next?
Watched again in 2019: For all its starkness, it feels intellectually alive and almost supernaturally so (by the end). Would that it were so? Jonathan Rosenbaum alerted me to the fact that the tracking shot circling Johannes and Maren is not exactly what it seems to be -- we don't see their backs! An early miracle?
Watched again in 2019: For all its starkness, it feels intellectually alive and almost supernaturally so (by the end). Would that it were so? Jonathan Rosenbaum alerted me to the fact that the tracking shot circling Johannes and Maren is not exactly what it seems to be -- we don't see their backs! An early miracle?
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