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The Phantom Carriage

Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage)

1921

Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Hildur Lithman ...

7.9

3,539

Drama. Fantasy It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead... David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the last stroke of midnight...

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Multiple superimpositions and double exposures create ghostly effects in Victor Sjostrom's 1920 masterpiece."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"'The Phantom Carriage' is notable for its special effects, which turns the horse-drawn carriage and the souls of the dead into translucent figures superimposed against the material world."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr The New York Times	"[A] silent masterpiece"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"The sermon on the demon power of drink could have come from a DW Griffith short. But Sjöström's inspired use of superimposition and time frames is infinitely more sophisticated (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Slant	"It remains an accurate portrait of addiction, and the festering microcosms that its adherents assemble around themselves (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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