Alex Barrett

Alex is an award-winning filmmaker and critic based in London. His film work includes directing Life Just Is (2012) and London Symphony (2017), co-writing January (2021) and editing The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024).

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Ordet at 70: the humanity behind one of cinema’s supreme spiritual achievements

It contains one of cinema’s fleshiest kisses, but also a moment of pure spiritual transcendence. And it’s the interdependence of these elements that makes Carl Dreyer’s 1955 classic Ordet – which is often voted one of the greatest films of all time – so miraculous.

By Alex Barrett

Ordet at 70: the humanity behind one of cinema’s supreme spiritual achievements
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