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Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader:
A silent curiosity made in Denmark in 1922, with an episodic, rhetorical structure that would have appealed to Jean-Luc Godard.
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David Thompson,
Time Out:
A weird and rather wonderful brew of fiction, documentary and animation based on 15th and 16th century witchcraft trials, Christensen's film has a remarkable visual flair that takes in Bosch, Breughel and Goya.
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Variety Staff,
Variety:
Swedish and Danish pictures easily hold the palm for morbid realism and in many cases for brilliant acting and production.
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