"Michael"
1924
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

A great, aging artist succumbs to despair when the young model and pupil he adores leaves him for a woman. Although the story is discreetly played at a father/adopted son level on the surface, the homosexual subtext is quite clear in this early Dreyer film made in Germany. "Dreyer's study of passion and loneliness could be considered the first film of his mature period" (The Faber Companion to Foreign Films). Cinematography by Karl Freund and Rudolph Mate. Silent with English title cards.  92 minutes.