The Word (Ordet)

I’ve long believed that the two summits of mise en scène in the history of cinema are Carl Dreyer’s Ordet and Jacques Tati’s Playtime..." Because Jonathan Rosenbaum isn't wrong. Because this shot. Because the ending is perhaps the most simple, confounding,…

Adam Kempenaar

I don't know where to start. This is a deeply Christian film, but the atheist character is never treated as a fool or a sinner--there are arguments, but it never crosses a line. Though there is a conversion eventually, it's such a profound and powerful moment that it…

Sally Jane Black

Even on a second viewing, after over a year of time between seeing Ordet last, Dreyer's film still brought me to tears. An unimaginable act, considering how religious themed the movie is and my views on religion (or lack there of). Ordet is based from a play written by…

Robert Beksinski

***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.*** Interesting how directors like Angelopoulos and Tarkovsky are often credited as the auteurs that influenced Béla Tarr when, ironically, Ordet is an unparalleled masterpiece of insightful religion discussion set in times…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Faith as an idea and how cinema is an art ideally positioned to move into the realm of the concrete. There's no stop talk about the subject and its many complications, but what matters is how Dreyer images suggest presence. Call it God or the auteur hand, neither benign or…

Filipe Furtado

Believer or atheist, it doesn’t matter. Ordet will wreck you either way. Full review here.

Josh Larsen

Dos únicos filmes deste mundo que consegue efetivamente intuir a natureza sobrenatural da fé, que consegue encená-la e fazer disso um mote universal e um drama psicológico dos mais destruidores. Incrível como mesmo dentro de um espaço físico bastante limitado existe um…

Arthur Tuoto

Early on in Ordet, we are told that miracles happen every day. Yet, at the end we learn that we have become so blind to the everyday acts of God that we demand something greater. Ordet is a layered and rewarding exploration of faith and its limits. We see how an obsession…

Stephen Gillespie

religious cinema is just so interesting and fascinating

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