Michael (1924)

Runtime
1hr 34mins
Directed by
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Featuring
Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor, Max Auzinger
Body

Through our Virtual Screening Room, you can rent films curated by the Coolidge team, while helping to support the Coolidge during this unprecedented time.

Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's Michael is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time. Michael takes its place alongside Dreyer's better known masterpieces as an unusually sensitive and decorous work of art and is one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history.

Collaborating with famed German cinematographers Karl Freund (MetropolisThe Last Laugh) and Rudolph Maté (Passion of Joan of ArcDOAMichael offers the first fully realized example of Dreyer's emotionally precise, visually extravagant style that would be perfected in his subsequent masterworks such as Joan of Arc and Ordet.

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Reviews
Review Text

Closeups of burning intensity and opulent tableaux of frozen horror suggest the great director's transcendent theme, of divine grace granted and withheld.

Review Author
Richard Brody
Review Publication
The New Yorker
Review Text

Offers a remarkably sympathetic view of gay and bisexual life.

Review Author
Tim Purrel
Review Publication
Entertainment Weekly
Review Text

One of the most daring early expressions of gay-themed melodrama.

Review Author
Eric Henderson
Review Publication
Slant Magazine

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