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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