Fresh
It's exquisite, unbearable, and unforgettable.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Gertrud
AMOR OMNIA, Love is Everything.
1964 · 1h 59m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Gertrud
Overview
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.
Director and cast
- Carl Theodor Dreyer Director
- Nina Pens Rode as Gertrud
- Bendt Rothe as Gustav Kanning
- Ebbe Rode as Gabriel Lidman
- Baard Owe as Erland Jansson
- Axel Strøbye as Axel Nygen
- Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt as Gertrud's concerned table neighbor
- Vera Gebuhr Cast
- Lars Knutzon Cast
- Anna Malberg Cast
- Edouard Mielche Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Dreyer's film depicts repressed carnal desires that merge with Gertrud's inevitably frustrated spiritual one: the longing for a love so total and consuming that it contains the seeds of its own destruction.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh
Nina Pens Rode has the right luminous quality for the romantic, uncompromising Gertrud, while the men are acceptable if sometimes overindulgent in their roles.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
One of the most purely cinematic discourses of the 1960s.
Tony Rayns, Time Out
Rotten
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.
Stanley Kauffmann, New York Times
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