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William Friedkin recommended Ordet (1955) in Movies (curated)

 
Ordet (1955)
Ordet (1955)
1955 | Drama
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"Directed by the Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ordet is yet another film made in 1955 to which I’m deeply indebted. There is a stunning scene of literal resurrection that inspired my own visual approach to The Exorcist and gave me the courage to stage a supernatural event as if it were actually happening, without scary lighting or weird angles. Like many of Dreyer’s other films, including Vampyr and The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ordet is based on literary source material (in this case, a play). But all his films are deeply spiritual in their examinations of the mystery of faith, and purely cinematic."

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    A.S. Byatt

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    When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Mitchell stumbles upon a letter written by...