ORDET directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer (Denmark, 1955)
It gets harder and harder to keep an open mind about arts and culture but I can honestly say that I approached this movie with no preconceptions.(If you plan to see it in the same state of blissful ignorance, look away now as this post contains spoilers!)
The only thing I knew about it was that it had been placed 24th in the BFI/Sight & Sound list of greatest films ever made. Regular readers of this blog (if such beings exist!) will know by now that I have set myself a goal of seeing all of the top 50 films on this list (I still have 14 to go!)
While I marvelled at Dreyer’s Jeanne D’Arcy, I can’t say I was as thrilled by the Dane’s Ordet, a title which translates as ‘The Word’ as in ‘the word of God’. Continue reading
