one of the cinema's loveliest spiritual explorations
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08/24/06
Francesco, Giullare Di Dio (1950)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:14
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.4/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: An aesthetically spare, earnest dramatization of the life of St. Frances of Assisi, focusing on the founding of the Franciscan order of travelling, penniless monks, who led a life of enlightened... [More]
Starring: Nazario Gerardi, Aldo Fabrizi, Arabella Lemaitre
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Reviews for Francesco, Giullare Di Dio
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Pious and earthy, crude and artful, filled with pithy religious lessons but devoid of moralizing.
07/14/06
A timeless treat.
07/13/06
Thanks to the simplicity of its filming and the sympathetic musical score Renzo Rossellini has affixed, it sends one forth from the theatre feling kindlier towards his fellow man.
03/25/06
Top CriticRossellini shows a great compassion and humor for the friars.
02/05/06
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01/26/06
a small film from a self-proclaimed atheist illustrates spiritual truths far more profoundly than more widely screened spectacles
09/24/05
Though Roberto Rossellini's Francesco, giullare di Dio...tells stories of a Roman Catholic saint, it should not be branded merely as a religious film.
08/20/05
a film for the faithful
08/12/05
The theme is less the simplicity of religion than the religiosity of simplicity.
08/09/05
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07/22/05
Rossellini's film has an uncomplicated charm and an effortless beauty.
05/31/05
A delightfully simple film, as much a tribute to the spirit of humane curiosity in which the film was made as to the heritage of spirituality that is its transcendent theme.
12/07/04
Rossellini's buoyant 1950 masterpiece is a glorious hallucination of perfect harmony between man and nature.
04/25/01
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