23 Ratings

Cross of Love

Rakkauden risti

Finland, 1946

Romance, Drama

Synopsis

The daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she ends up selling herself in the streets, until a painter finds her as an ideal model for his next painting.

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Cross of Love Directed by Teuvo Tulio

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inquisita's rating of the film Cross of Love
inquisita

Anthropophagy at its choicest. (That is if women counted as humans at the time). Every Tulio film arrives at a crossroads moment that you know is so bad & ugly & embarrassing & choking & exitless as only he could make, that I need a substantial pause before kayaking down the cataract or covering my face with the t-shirt. Gallagher famously said that Dreyer's Gertrud was as intense as a soccer match. Don't know about
January 24, 2019 18:06
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josé neves's rating of the film Cross of Love
josé neves

"Death is the sanction of all that the storyteller can narrate. To death he get his authority. In other words, his stories resend us the story of nature." (Walter Benjamin)
January 24, 2019 18:05
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Irma Vep's rating of the film Cross of Love
Irma Vep

An impossibly baroque plot rips open the raw core of human feeling.
March 10, 2015 04:28
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