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"Michael"
1924
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
A great, aging artist
succumbs to despair when the young model and pupil he adores leaves him
for a woman. Although the story is discreetly played at a father/adopted
son level on the surface, the homosexual subtext is quite clear in this
early Dreyer film made in Germany. "Dreyer's study of passion and
loneliness could be considered the first film of his mature period" (The
Faber Companion to Foreign Films). Cinematography by Karl Freund and
Rudolph Mate. Silent with English title cards. 92 minutes.
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