Denmark
1995
94 minutes
Black and White
1.66:1
Danish
128
Torben Skjødt Jensen’s elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema’s greatest directors. Visually rich and densely layered, Carl Th. Dreyer—My Metier illuminates an artist too little understood and too important to overlook. Through interviews, historical writings, and rare archival footage, a portrait of Dreyer emerges: an austere perfectionist, yes, but also a passionate man possessing a genuine sense of humor. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this in-depth study of Dreyer’s life and work for the first time on home video.
| Dreyer's voice | Henning Jensen |
| Interview subjects | Henning Bendtsen |
| Hélène Falconetti | |
| Birgitte Federspiel | |
| Preben Lerdorff Rye | |
| Lisbeth Movin | |
| Baard Owe | |
| Jørgen Roos | |
| Axel Strøbye |
| Director | Torben Skjødt Jensen |
| Scenario | Torben Skjødt Jensen |
| Assistant director | Prami Larsen |
| Idea | Lars Bo Kimergaard |
| Commentary | Harald Paalgaard |
| Assistant photographer | Birger Bohm |
| Video photographers | Torben Sjkødt Jensen and Prami Larsen |
| Editing | Ghita Beckendorff |
| Producer | Michael Brask |
Carl Th. Dreyer—My Métier works on three aesthetic levels playing off each other. Shot in 35mm black and white, the documentary’s narrative is rich in content. The participants in these pieces are the actors, film crew, and colleagues who have worked . . .
There is a certain resemblance between a work of art and a person. Just as one can talk about a person’s soul, one can also talk about the work of art’s soul, its personality.The soul is shown through the style, which is the artist’s way of giving expression to his perception of . . .
I have known Torben Skjødt since 1983. His debut video Englefjæs—which I thought to be very accomplished—was presented during a film week in Silkeborg. A debut work, yes, but made with a self-assured maturity by a self-taught creator of images. Since then I have followed his . . .
Before Lars von Trier, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson there was Carl Th. Dreyer. The first great film artist to pursue the ineffable in cinema, Dreyer gave depth to what early silent filmmakers innately understood yet took for granted: that . . .
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