Gertrud

Name: Gertrud
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Released: 1964

Carl Theodor Dreyer

black and white love based on play or musical lover flashback

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Synopsis

Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try t

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I guess there are not a lot of women filmmakers who have been influenced by Dreyer, but I was. Especially with Gertrud. She's a very strong woman, an absolute woman, and very much alone. That touched me a lot. He's also a director who is very much connected to women.

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