The Bride of Glomdal

This is the first Dreyer film where I’ve simply been disengaged completely from beginning to end. It was originally one hundred and fifteen minutes in its original run way back in 1926, and over time it’s been whittled down to seventy-four minutes. More than a third of the runtime has gone missing, and I think that’s a large part of why this movie doesn’t engage. Between the two melodramatic bookends, the movie is a largely staid affair of people being nice to each other about getting two pe...