Michael

A mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret, his protagonist Michael, and Princess Zamikoff, an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael’s youthful beauty as Zoret is.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast: Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison, Benjamin Christensen, Didier Aslan, Alexander Murski, Grete Mosheim

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.