Before he got up close and personal with Joan of Arc, the Danish cinema genius Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr) fashioned this finely detailed, ahead-of-its-time examination of domestic life. In this heartfelt story of a housewife who, with the help of a wilynanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband, Dreyer finds lightness and humor; its a deft comedy of revenge that was an enormous box-office success and is considered an early example of feminism on-screen. Constructed with the director's customarymeticulousness and stirring sense of justice, Master of the House is a jewel of silent cinema.
Before he got up close and personal with Joan of Arc, the Danish cinema genius Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr) fashioned this finely detailed, ahead-of-its-time examination of domestic life. In this heartfelt story of a housewife who, with the help of a wilynanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband, Dreyer finds lightness and humor; its a deft comedy of revenge that was an enormous box-office success and is considered an early example of feminism on-screen. Constructed with the director's customarymeticulousness and stirring sense of justice, Master of the House is a jewel of silent cinema.
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