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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Filmed by Dreyer in Denmark under the Nazi occupation,,the atmosphere of persecution and paranoia during a witch hunt through a 1620s Danish village is well captured.The parson's wife Anne(Lisbeth Movin)tries to save an elderly woman(Anna Svierkier) from being caught as a witch.Anne is the young second wife of Reverend Absolom,who saved Anne's mother from being tried as a witch.Herlofs Marthe is tortured and burned at the stake, cursing Absolom as she is put to the stake.The Absolom household is thrown into confusion as Anne falls in love with Absolom's returning son,Martin,under the suspicious gaze of Meret,Absolom's domineering,possessive mother.Absolom's marriage is loveless and childless,preferring to talk to God than his beautiful young wife.Anne wishes her husband,out in a storm,was dead,telling first Martin and then Absolom,who dies of heart attack on his return.In declaring her thoughts,she opens herself to denunciation,believing herself to have entered a secret hereditary vocation of evil.Dreyer's Rembrandt-like compositions and lighting,his fluid camera movement,minimal lighting and shadows of the austere,claustrophobic interiors,in contrast to the pastoral escapes into the open landscape of the young lovers,above all Movin's sexually charged performance as Anne,whose desires and sensuality are equated to satanism by the narrow minded.Dreyer highlights women's plight of how men co opt religious dogma to oppress and punish female desires.There is little chance of redemption.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Stark spellbinding religious tale by the great Carl Dreyer is not quite as good as Ordet but comes pretty close.
Set in 17th century Denmark,Herlofs Marte ( a superb Anna Svierkier)is sentenced to death for witchcraft ;she curses her chief accussor Absalon Pedersson ( Thorklid Roose)before being burned .Needless to say things do not turn out well for poor Absalon as his wife betrays him setting off a chain of events that destroy his family.To say more would spoil it.
Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark the theme of individuals trapped in a repressive society was a pertinent one.Carl Andersson's luminous photography is a major asset in this marvellous film as is the performance of Lisbeth Movin as the "villain" of the piece- an intoxicatingly sensual portrayal of a woman denied.
Set in 17th century Denmark,Herlofs Marte ( a superb Anna Svierkier)is sentenced to death for witchcraft ;she curses her chief accussor Absalon Pedersson ( Thorklid Roose)before being burned .Needless to say things do not turn out well for poor Absalon as his wife betrays him setting off a chain of events that destroy his family.To say more would spoil it.
Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark the theme of individuals trapped in a repressive society was a pertinent one.Carl Andersson's luminous photography is a major asset in this marvellous film as is the performance of Lisbeth Movin as the "villain" of the piece- an intoxicatingly sensual portrayal of a woman denied.
Format:DVD
Day of Wrath is an intense film in which 3 very different female characters both dominate the story and leave us with a queasy sense of moral uncertainty. First there is the persecuted but innocent old 'witch' (Anna Svierkier), a role that is more shocking today than it would have been back in 1943. Second, the central character of Anne, Absolom's wife, offers a profound sense of ethical unease for the audience. Finally, the mother-in-law, a role easily overlooked as it comes the closest to caricature ... but the way she spits 'shameless' at her son and her hatred for Anne is utterly convincing. These characters combine to forge a compromised and uncertain moral landscape which leaves the viewer with no easy options.
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