The follow up film to my favorite film of all time (Passion of Joan of Arc) by my favorite director (Carl Dreyer). I have just watched this film for the fourth time and am still astounded by Dreyer's hallucinatory vision. This is the closest a film has gotten to illustrating an actual nightmare (save for Mulholland Drive), with Dreyer making the brilliant decision to put a thin white clothe over the lense to create the other worldly atmosphere. Some people may be confused by the ending of this film (or maybe the whole thing). I will be nice and give you a clue: The opening shots in the film explain the final shots. Also, Dreyer once again is able to include spiritual undertones through out his film, although they do go outside the realm of just Christianity. There have been other filmmakers since who have been able to match the level of spirituality in his films (in particular, Ozu and Bergman) but none that I know of before him. Dreyer is one of the great auteurs in filmmaking, and this is another example of his unique voice.