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12/25/08
Gertrud (1964)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:6
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
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
Reviews for Gertrud
1 - 11 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticWhat 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.
08/29/06
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06/24/06
Top CriticEmotionally shattering as a masterful purely realistic cinema experience.
07/25/05
No review available.
06/19/05
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.
05/09/05
Top CriticGertrud is a film that is as richly mysterious and inscrutable as it is earthy and wry.
11/06/03
No review available.
07/02/03
No review available.
01/30/03
A morose, utterly passionless film.
09/15/02
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.
03/05/02
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