Gertrud

Gertrud

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Release Date

12/19/1964

Runtime

119 mins

Overview

Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.

Status

Released

Original Language

Danish

Budget

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Revenue

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A glacially paced meditation on the gap between romantic longing and lived reality, where Gertrud's pursuit of idealized love becomes a study in disappointment and solitude. Dreamy and austere in equal measure, it asks whether the dream is worth the damage it causes.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulContemplative

Themes

LoveComing apartIdentity

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Black and whiteFormalist

Structure

Framed flashback

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