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"Gertrud"
1964
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Dreyer's last film, adapted from an early 20th century Scandinavian play, is a  profound tale of a life crippled by an inability to compromise. Gertrud leaves her husband and scorns a former lover, Gabriel to pursue a young musician, Gustav, who fails to live up to her image of him. She ends her marriage to him and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson. When he also fails to live up to her standards, she leaves him. "...deserves to be ranked along with The Magnificent Ambersons, Lola Montes and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as one of the great haunted-memory films" (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). Danish with English subtitles.
119 minutes.