Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
Dreyer's adaptation of a classic fantasy subject with vampires, a mysterious castle and the struggle between good and evil.
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer was a Danish film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers in history, his films are noted for emotional austerity and slow, stately pacing, frequent themes of social intolerance, the inseparability of fate and death, and the power of evil in earthly life. His 1928 movie The Passion of Joan of Arc is considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time, renowned for its cinematography and use of close-ups. It frequently appears on Sight & Sound's lists of the great films ever made, and in 2022's poll, it was voted 21st on the list by film critics and 30th by film directors. His other best known films include Michael (1924), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), and Gertrud (1964).
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