"Ordet": (The word), a film by Carl Dreyer (no 10)
1954 I'd like to know if anyone actually read this review. if so please make a comment? I love foreign cinema and occasionally I enjoy reviewing old films from Germany, France, Italy or Japan, or other countries. My favorite kind of film is one that takes on a big question, the kind of question religious belief is about answering, through the perspective of modern thought and film making. My favorite director is Ingmar Bergman , for his quasi religous (even though he was an atheist) films such as The Seventh Seal , the Virgin Spring , Winter Light. I've been searching for another director who would have that same kind of theological bent in a modern film package. I recently found one in Carl Dreyer (1889-1968) . While Berman was a Swede Dreyer was Danish, and is very different from Bergman yet they both share that same Nordic kind of theater tradition that adds an element of stinginess and pageantry to their films. While they are very different they a...