GERTRUD & Her Love for 4 potential men

GERTRUD
movie by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Denmark 1964


based on drama by Hjalmar Söderberg
Sweden 1906




my SnowBlack Movie # 1342


Happy role: AXEL NYGREN (friend studying psychology in Paris)

Grumpy role: GUSTAV KANNING (present husband and potential minister)

Crazy role: ERLAND JANSSON (pianist and present lover)

Shy role: EVERY PAINTED PORTRAIT (in the backgrounds)


Explosive role: MOTHER (of Gustav, dressed in feathers)

Exhausted role: GABRIEL LIDMAN (professor and former lover)

Wise role: EVERYONE (in at least some of their many philosophical statements)


Beautiful role: GERTRUD KANNING (the woman herself, who loves everyone or no one or someone else)



6 Characters
4 Scenery
7 Camerawork

2 Thrill
4 Conflict
1 Humour

7 Psychology
7 Philosophy
2 Fantasy

3 Composition
6 Music
5 Concept

= 54


I now give 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 12 = 84 never exist(?)






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