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01/26/06
The Diary of a Country Priest (1950)
88 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 14 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Synopsis: Robert Bresson's profoundly moving DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST represents a radical departure from the staid movie adaptations of novels that had preceded it. Rather than translate author George Bernanos's story of a small-town priest's struggle with doubt--and the petty provocations of... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Claude Laydu
Director: Robert Bresson
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05/24/03
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can be viewed as the closest thing to a genuine religious experience in film.
03/25/06
The paradoxical discovery of meaning in its apparent absence serves as a primary theme of the film as well as its aesthetic model.
12/01/04
Profoundly contemplates suffering, conversion, incorrigibility, and the dark night of the soul with rigor and insight evoking the Confessions or Story of a Soul.
03/26/04
Bresson's Christ allegory is surprisingly powerful and unexpectedly (for this old agnostic) affecting,
03/04/04
A thoughtful, delicate film that arrives on DVD as a balm for those weary of the ugly histrionics -- onscreen and off -- connected with 'The Passion of the Christ.'
03/04/04
even if you dig the physical sickness as metaphor for spiritual sickness bit, you'll grok this fully within 10 minutes of the start of the film
02/01/04
Perhaps those more closely familiar with the states of grace discussed in this film will be more alert to its meanings. This reviewer was completely confused.
11/04/03
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It is definitely not a film for everyone's tastes -- Bresson's work is known for its slow, meditative pace -- but a brilliant picture all the same.
07/30/03
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The incredible hostility and humiliation to which the frail priest is subjected and the magnificent peace he finds... is something that can be understood universally.
04/04/03
Bresson’s adaptation of Georges Bernanos’ novel about the suffering of a young priest is generally regarded as one of the filmmaker’s best.
03/26/03
Robert Bresson delivers a seemingly simple account of one priest's spiritual challenges in his masterful, moving Diary of a Country Priest.
01/04/03
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