Once Upon a Time

Karl J. Kipling

3.5 One thinks of Dreyer as a heavy, humorless filmmaker and that something like this - a comic fairy tale - would be absolutely uncongenial to his nature and he'd ruin it. But how light and comic it often is! Hard to rate this because so much is missing - close to half, I guess, explained by title cards - and that's a pity, because what's here's marvellous.

Francisco R.

I thought the plot was enjoyable enough to forget the overly innocent and dull conclusion, still, if I have to watch Dreyer in a light mood, I prefer The Parson's Widow.

FISCHER

Il est plutôt difficile de se faire une idée juste de ce film en partie perdu et dont nous avons pu visionner qu'un maigre échantillon... www.cinefiches.com

Samuel Andrade

★★★ the taming of the danish shrew.