How do we understand faith and prayer, and what of miracles? August 1925 on a Danish farm. Patriarch Borgen has three sons: Mikkel, a good-hearted agnostic whose wife Inger is pregnant, Johannes, who believes he is Jesus, and Anders, young, slight, in love with the tailor's daughter.
All I wanted to say about this one was a general comment on the cinematography in the Scandinavian countries. Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman seem to prefer black and white over color, and they both know how to make it look sharp and crisp, the contrast and shadows even bolder than any use of color could allow. Today, making a film in black and white is hard to do unless you are independent... "Pi" comes to mind. It is an art form that should not be dead.
Beyond that, this is a beautiful take on faith and "the word". Again like Bergman, this seems to be a preoccupation of Scandinavian cinema. Perhaps it is not -- maybe only the great films (and thus those that reach America) have such a worldview... but it is wonderful just the same.
All I wanted to say about this one was a general comment on the cinematography in the Scandinavian countries. Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman seem to prefer black and white over color, and they both know how to make it look sharp and crisp, the contrast and shadows even bolder than any use of color could allow. Today, making a film in black and white is hard to do unless you are independent... "Pi" comes to mind. It is an art form that should not be dead.
Beyond that, this is a beautiful take on faith and "the word". Again like Bergman, this seems to be a preoccupation of Scandinavian cinema. Perhaps it is not -- maybe only the great films (and thus those that reach America) have such a worldview... but it is wonderful just the same.