A new religious film with Claude Laydu, the bressonian county priest.
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A young priest is assigned to a poor mining parish. There he will try by all means to end, through the Gospel, the justified rancor of the miners, who live in a bleeding situation of misery and social injustice. (FILMAFFINITY)Read More »
Claude Laydu
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Rafael Gil – La guerra de Dios AKA I Was a Parish Priest (1953)
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Robert Bresson – Journal d’un curé de campagne aka Diary of a Country Priest [+ commentary] (1951)
1951-1960ArthouseClassicsFranceRobert BressonQuote:
A new priest (Claude Laydu) arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God. With his fourth film, Robert Bresson began to implement his stylistic philosophy as a filmmaker, stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions, the dialogue and the music, exacting a purity of image and sound.Read More » -
Robert Bresson – Journal d’un curé de campagne aka Diary of a Country Priest [+commentary] (1951)
1951-1960DramaFranceRobert BressonQuote:
A new priest (Claude Laydu) arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God. With his fourth film, Robert Bresson began to implement his stylistic philosophy as a filmmaker, stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions, the dialogue and the music, exacting a purity of image and sound.Read More »