The Parson's Widow
(1920)
Directed by Carl
Theodor Dreyer this film stars Einar Rod, Hildur Carlberg and Greta
Almroth. To marry his sweetheart a young man must get a job as a
parson but to get the job he must marry his predecessor's widow.
The set up for the
story here is not bad but the plot ends up being fairly simplistic
and does not have a huge amount of depth. It is nice that the story
ends up being fairly circular in nature, as is life, but I am not
sure that the run time is long enough for the character arcs to work
properly. Dreyer only made one film before this and in this film had
not yet established the style that make some of his other film so
celebrated.
3/5
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