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...Dreyer's Gertrud, with a Griffith short, Thursday, Feb 13, 7:30 and Letter From an Unknown Woman, with a Chaplin short, and a Districh short, Sunday...
...Dream." Here a young man travels in his dream to a fantasy island, where the women of his past, innocent love live in an idyllic setting. But soon he has to leave, sad and frustrated that he never held onto their love when he could. Again in "To Frau Gertrud" the narrator sadly recounts his happiness with a love now gone. "The Marble Works" is perhaps the most encouraging of these early stories. Here Hesse develops a story of lost love into some better understanding than mere whisperings of sadness and frustration...
...almost all his films. Dreyer pays loving attention to faces and to gestures in Gertrud. His famous The Passion of Joan of Arc is almost entirely a study of the faces of Joan and her tormentors. "What I want to do," Dreyer writes, "is to penetrate, by way of their most subtle expressions, to the deepest thoughts of my actors. For it is these expressions which reveal the personality of a character, his unconscious feelings, the secrets hidden deep within his soul." It's a technique Bergman often uses, as John Cassavetes does in Faces. Bathed in blinding white light...
...serve what purpose? As in all his films, the moods that are developed are all-important. Beneath the mood-evoking surface dialogue and action, the real emotions play themselves out, giving the film a kinship with Rohmer's My Night at Maud's. The ideas that pervade Gertrud number among Dreyer's characteristic preoccupations. What is the power of love? What part should love play in a person's life? In contrast to his other films, Gertrud does not raise these questions in a religious context. A brief scene at the close of the film shows Gertrud, a recluse near...
...career Dreyer hoped to make a film on the life of Jesus Christ, and he was negotiating its financing the year he died. If he had lived to make the film, it might have resolved some of the problems he raised in his other films. But probably, like Gertrud, his version of the story would have raised as many questions as it answered...