How do we understand faith and prayer, and what of miracles? August 1925 on a Danish farm. Widowed Patriarch Borgen, who's rather prominent in his community, has three sons: Mikkel, a good-hearted agnostic whose wife Inger is pregnant, Johannes, who believes he is Jesus, and Anders, young, slight, in love with the tailor's daughter. The fundamentalist sect of the girl's father is anathema to Borgen's traditional Lutheranism; he opposes the marriage until the tailor forbids it... (Full plot summary below)
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How do we understand faith and prayer, and what of miracles? August 1925 on a Danish farm. Widowed Patriarch Borgen, who's rather prominent in his community, has three sons: Mikkel, a good-hearted agnostic whose wife Inger is pregnant, Johannes, who believes he is Jesus, and Anders, young, slight, in love with the tailor's daughter. The fundamentalist sect of the girl's father is anathema to Borgen's traditional Lutheranism; he opposes the marriage until the tailor forbids it, then Borgen's pride demands that it happen. Unexpectedly, Inger, who is the family's sweetness and light, has problems with her pregnancy. The rational doctor arrives, and a long night brings sharp focus to at least four views of faith.
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| Time OutDave CalhounA strange, wondrous and shocking work. Once seen, it's unlikely to leave you. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen...both exquisite cinema and an incredible act of grace. |
| Film4Jon FortgangA sombre exploration of religious faith in all its various guises, directed by Dreyer with a quiet but deep seated compassion for his characters. |
| The Age (Australia)Philippa HawkerThe film unfolds in a confined space but there is nothing constrained or contained in its searching, intense approach and nothing dogmatic about its approach to its subject. |
| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchThere are only 114 shots, each averaging over a minute, only three close-ups, and the film demands and rewards the closest attention. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThe film is extremely sensual in its spareness, a paradox always at the center of Dreyer's work. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsGuaranteed to make you levitate from your cinema seat in awe. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsReminiscent of Ingmar Bergman's spare style when exploring similar themes (eg The Seventh Seal), Dryer's work is disciplined and focused, rather like a Jesuit, really. |
| Senses of CinemaThomas BeltzerCompletely rejecting the typical, Western division between the natural and the supernatural, Dreyer shows us a world where God is incarnate in the ordinary and where spiritual transcendence occurs in the face of oppressive religiosity. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceTragedy strikes, and petty denominational squabbles disintegrate in Dreyer's sublime synthesis of humanistic and textual faith, a vision of purity and clarity. |
