Vredens dag 1943

Sara Cardace, New York Magazine/Vulture: Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1943 masterpiece begins as a film about seventeenth-century witch hunts in Northern Europe, but it's really a psychological thriller about the pull of evil on weak souls. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: However bleak, Day of Wrath is a masterpiece. See it. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Astonishing in its artistically informed period re-creation as well as its hypnotic mise en scene, it challenges the viewer by suggesting at times that witchcraft isn't so much an illusion as an activity produced by intolerance. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Dreyer's impious, anarchic drama is a cry of rage at abusive authority, whether political, familial, religious, or moral; he celebrates erotic love as the natural order of things. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: I'd be saving a spot for it near the top of my 10-best list if the movie hadn't been made 65 years ago. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A stark, brooding treatment of adultery, incest, and murder, an elemental tragedy not so far from a James M. Cain triangle, albeit shot so as to deliberately evoke the Dutch masters. Read more