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Master of the House

A sublime Dreyer.

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Sep 19, 2023
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I hadn’t heard of Master of the House, one of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s great movies no one seems to talk about, until I stumbled upon it the other day. As its title implies, it’s a domestic drama, as humanistic and glorious as The Passion of Joan of Arc, but maybe more in line with his last great melodrama, Gertrud.

Released in 1925, the silent drama (it al…

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