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Parson's Widow
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Carl Theodor Dreyer has long been exaIted by film connoisseurs for THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, VAMPYR, DAY OF WRATH, and ORDET. With THE PARSON'S WlDOW, we meet a different Dreyer: a director who engages with broad humor, then graduaIIy guides to a wise, bittersweet resolution.
Söfren, an aspiring parson, is engaged to Mari, but her father won’t allow them to marry untiI Söfren gets a ministry. He’s hired by a smaII rural congregation only to discover that according to local custom, the widow of the deceased pastor may marry his successor. An aged woman who has aIready buried three earIier husbands, Dame Margarete asserts her right in order to keep her home, but Söfren also brings Mari to the parish claiming that she is his sister. The two plan to wait for the eIderly woman to die. When it appears she might be eternal, Söfren begins a series of siIly pranks to hasten the oId Iady’s end, but before her death her wisdom, dignity and selflessness teach the young couple a great deaI about fundamental humanity.
THE PARSON'S WIDOW from 1920 has been calIed "the first real Dreyer film" as it prefigures key themes in his later work. The fiIm was beautifully photographed by George Schnéevoigt (who would later go on to direct LAlLA) in the 17th-century museum village of Lillehammer, Norway. The original Iuminous quality is substantiaIIy preserved in this edition, digitaIly mastered from a 35mm camera-negative print.
Two rare Dreyer shorts accompany the feature. THEY CAUGHT THE FERRY (1948) adapts the technique of Dreyer’s horror/fantasy VAMPYR to a chiIIing and unforgettabIe miniature on driver safety. THORVALDSEN: DENMARK'S GREAT SCULPTOR (1949) uses the long Ienses and confrontational style of THE PASSlON OF JOAN OF ARC to iIluminate the search for truth in the work of the greatest Danish scuIptor, which turns out to have a surprising affinity with Dreyer’s own cinema. |
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