Gertrud 1964

TIME Magazine: Gertrud... is more museum piece than masterpiece, for this muted and stately study of a woman's quest for perfect love already seems to have been gathering dust for decades. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: It's exquisite, unbearable, and unforgettable. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Dreyer's film depicts repressed carnal desires that merge with Gertrud's inevitably frustrated spiritual one: the longing for a love so total and consuming that it contains the seeds of its own destruction. Read more

Stanley Kauffmann, New York Times: In his best films there has always been an underlying human concern that sustained us through any longueurs of execution. Here, under the slow, posed pictures, there is nothing but the dated theme described above. Read more

Tony Rayns, Time Out: One of the most purely cinematic discourses of the 1960s. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Nina Pens Rode has the right luminous quality for the romantic, uncompromising Gertrud, while the men are acceptable if sometimes overindulgent in their roles. Read more