03 marzo, 2023

Carl Theodor Dreyer - Ordet (1955)

 
Danés | Subs: Castellano/English/Portugués/Français/Deutsch (muxed)
116 min | x264 984x720 | 6500 kb/s | 640 kb/s AC3 | 24 fps
6,26 GB
La palabra
1930, en una comunidad de Jutlandia, Dinamarca. El anciano Morten Borgen, padre de 3 hijos, trata de sacar adelante su granja. Uno de sus vástagos, Ander, está enamorado de una muchacha de una familia rival. Otro, Mikkel, espera que su mujer, Inger, dé a luz su tercer hijo. El último, Johannes, es un estudiante de teología que de tanto estudiar e identificarse con la figura de Jesucristo es considerado un loco por sus vecinos. El parto de Inger se complica, y el doctor se muestra muy pesimista.
Considerada una de las más grandes obras maestras del cine religioso, y el film más redondo del director danés Carl Theodor Dreyer, que obtuvo el León de Oro en Venecia. El cineasta adaptó una obra teatral de Kaj Munk, pastor protestante, sobre la relación entre ciencia y religión, y el poder de la oración. El film, rico en reflexiones antropológicas, es heredero directo de la preocupación por la fe del también danés Søren Kierkegaard, uno de los filósofos fundamentales del siglo XIX. 
-- (decine21)
The Word
A crisis of faith and love comes to a head at the Borgen farm. Patriarch Morten (Henrick Malberg) is adamant that his son Anders (Cay Kristiansen) should not marry the tailor's daughter, as her family is of a different faith. Morten feels that the Christian ways are falling by the wayside, as his eldest son Mikkel (Emil Hass Christiansen) is a non-believer. Mikkel's dedicated and loving wife Inger (Birgitte Federspiel) gently accepts her husband's lack of faith as she awaits her third child. Morten is determined to defend the church of his forefathers but his third son Johannes is a mental case who believes him self to be Jesus Christ and is beginning to become a serious embarrassment. One night, events transpire that change all of their lives ...
For the ordinary filmgoer, and I include myself, "Ordet" is a difficult film to enter. But once you're inside, it is impossible to escape. Lean, quiet, deeply serious, populated with odd religious obsessives, it takes place in winter in Denmark in 1925, in a rural district that has a cold austere beauty.
 
[...] The camera movements have an almost godlike quality. At several points, such as during the prayer meeting, they pan back and forth slowly, relentlessly, hypnotically. There are a few movements of astonishing complexity, beginning in the foreground, somehow arriving at the background, but they flow so naturally you may not even notice them. The lighting, in black and white, is celestial -- not in a joyous but in a detached way. The climactic scene could have been handled in countless conventional ways, but the film has prepared us for it, and it has a grave, startling power.

When the film was over, I had plans. I could not carry them out. I went to bed. Not to sleep. To feel. To puzzle about what had happened to me. I had started by viewing a film that initially bored me. It had found its way into my soul. Even after the first half hour, I had little idea what power awaited me, but now I could see how those opening minutes had to be as they were.

I have books about Dreyer on the shelf. I did not take them down. I taught a class based on the Schrader book, although I did not include "Ordet." I did not open it to see what he had to say. Rosenbaum has written often about Dreyer, but when I quote him here, it is only things he has said to me. I did not want secondary information, analysis, context. The film stands utterly and fearlessly alone. Many viewers will turn away from it. Persevere. Go to it. It will not come to you. 
-- Roger Ebert
 
Blu-ray rip de mfcorrea
 
Imperdible. La versión XviD de esta maravillosa película
fue publicada por primera vez en octubre de 2009

 


1 comentario:

  1. ¡Muchas gracias! Carl Theodor Dreyer es grande como el océano.

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