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    Master of the House (1925)

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    Date: 14 Aug 2011 07:58:48
    Master of the House (1925)

    Master of the House / Du skal ære din hustru (1925)
    DVD9 | ISO | PAL 4:3 (720x576) | Artwork | 01:33:14 | 8,02 Gb
    Musical score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps with English intertitles
    Genre: Drama | Denmark

    Master of the House, or in literal translation Thou Shalt Honour Thy Wife, is set in the household of John. He treats his wife Mary badly, carping on every little thing and never having a kind word to say. Eventually his maltreatment drives his long-suffering wife into a breakdown, and she leaves him to recuperate in the country. This enables his one-time wet nurse Nana to concoct a plan to give John his comeuppance and restore the family to its formerly harmonious state.

    This Danish silent was the seventh film of fourteen directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the greatest of all Danish film directors. The Danish cinema was the major European producer of films in the years leading up to the First World War. While Italy had their spectacular epics, the studios of Denmark produced more cinematically sophisticated dramas and comedies and were the main suppliers of the German market. This market and others dried up with the outbreak of war and the expansion of the US industry, but Denmark had still produced a number of major filmmakers such as Benjamin Christensen, August Blom and Holger-Madsen, and an international star in Asta Nielsen. The Danish cinema never recovered to its pre-war peak, but still continued to make quality films well into the latter part of the silent era. Starting in 1912 Dreyer was a scriptwriter and then in 1919 became a director. He quickly became recognised as a major talent through the films Leaves From Satan's Book and The Parson's Widow, the latter of which bears some thematic resemblance to Master of the House.

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    Master of the House (1925)

    A departure from Carl Theodor Dreyer's general reputation as a director of severe, forbidding, and deeply spiritual films, Master of the House reflects the gentle humor, humanism, and innate social conscience that is often overlooked in the cursory assessment of Dreyer's stylistically identifiable and accomplished body of work. In Master of the House, Ida Frandsen (Astrid Holm) is the definition of the archetypal Dreyer heroine: practical, self-sacrificing, conciliator, nurturer, and possessing deep personal conviction. Ida is the overworked and browbeaten wife of Viktor (Johannes Meyer), a financially struggling businessman whose attempts to suppress his own deep seated feelings of uncertainty and failure have resulted in unnecessarily cruel and self-indulgent behavior within the household: the coffee is never served on time, there is not enough butter on his bread, the children are unmanaged, and his shoes are in a state of disrepair (nor is there enough money saved to retrieve his other shoes from the cobbler).

    Master of the House (1925)

    Viktor's former nurse and longtime family friend, Miss Madsen (Mathilde Nielsen), affectionately called "Mads" by the children, observes his tyrannical insensitivity with visible disapproval, but is sworn to passive acceptance and neutrality by the devoted Ida, rationalizing that his severity is a temporary aberration to the gentleness of his true soul. Despite Ida's expressed reluctance to defy the overbearing Viktor, Mads enlists the assistance of Ida's mother (Clara Schønfeld) and devises an underhanded plan to take Ida away from the responsibilities of the household and rehabilitate the self-indulgent Viktor in an attempt to restore domestic harmony.

    Master of the House (1925)

    Master of the House is a spare, compassionate, and astute social satire on domesticity, gender roles, and subservience. Using parallel imagery that further reflects a distinctive aspect of Dreyer's art, the film underscores the characters' profound transformation towards empathy, self-reliance, and equality: the resigned and methodical performance of chores; Viktor's contrasted behavior towards Ida's pet birds; the repeated ritual of parent and child folding a blanket.

    Master of the House (1925)

    Dreyer further uses episodic recurrences to inferentially develop the plot while retaining the visual economy of the film. Using kammerspielfilm techniques such as spare and unobtrusive use of intertitles, compressed chronology of events, and confined one-room staging of the scenes, Dreyer effectively distills the narrative to its essential form of expression, transcending the inarticulate bounds of conventional dialogue to create a synthesis of implicit and universally accessible cinematic language of images and emotions.
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    Master of the House (1925)

    Edition Details:
    • My Metier (Torben Skjødt Jensen, 1995, 94 mins) - a documentary on Dreyer's life and work, including rare archival footage, film clips, interviews with key actors and associates, stills, scripts, newspaper clippings, letters and Dreyer's own words
    • Good Mothers (Dreyer, 1942, 12 mins)
    • They Caught the Ferry (Dreyer, 1948, 11 mins)
    • Fully illustrated booklet including an essay by Dreyer scholar Casper Tybjerg (University of Copenhagen); an extract from a feature on Dreyer by film historian Tom Milne from Sight & Sound; an extract from an essay by James Leahy on They Caught the Ferry and more
    Master of the House (1925)

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