Carl Theodor Dreyer was not a new name to me; I certainly had heard of his films 'Day of Wrath' and 'Joan of Arc', but that was about all. I had never seen one of his works until the other day when I rented the Eureka two disc set of his 1923 silent masterpiece 'Michael'. What a revelation!
'Michael' is perhaps one of Dreyer's lesser known films and barely gets a mention in any film reference books. Why that should be is hard to understand.
I'm now looking forward to the Criterion boxed set of some of his better known films
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