This video release of Carl Dreyer's festival hit finds it looking less like an allegory of religious faith than an arresting family drama. A romance between the children of two Danish farm families — one fundamentalist, one freethinking — creates tension in each. This may sound like trite stuff, but the director's cool understanding of passion and pain makes it an emotional masterpiece. A
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