@deanduncan63Saw #MasteroftheHouse. A stirring dramatization of the ordinance of the washing of the feet! God among the saucepans, as St. Teresa said.
#MasteroftheHouse. Or, Carl Dreyer’s take on HC Andersen’s Wild Swans, w’out magic or transformations …
… Woman as saviour/woman as martyr.
#MasteroftheHouse. Just as perceptive in its withering, punitive, & then finally atoning account of patriarchal manhood, ca. mid-’20s.
#MasteroftheHouse. Ca. mid-’20s, I said. How ’bout now? Serves just as much as reproof, warning & promise to contemporary Man.
#MasteroftheHouse. Value-added: what an amazing record, a documentary practically, …
… of the gadgets, mechanisms & domestic arrangements that prevailed in bourgeois households of yore!