Review of Ordet (1955) by John M — 11 May 2011

I know I'm supposed to love Dreyer, but this is a glacial piece of theodicy that has loads of great ideas and no will to execute it artfully. Painfully astringent and brutally ideological.

This review of Ordet (1955) was written by John M on 11 May 2011.

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