Carl-Henrik Trier

Even more so than The Orchid Gardener, this film anticipates Lars von Trier's later work. The cross-wielding figure who emerges in the final shot before the end title in The Orchid Gardener appears here as "the Jew" who keeps the garden in the cloister where Menthe's would-be mistress attempts to make her "remember" the things that they have lived together in a series of images that play with expectations about dominance. (KG)