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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... 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 simplicity. Co-scripted by Frederico Fellini, using predominantly non-professional actors. [More]
Starring: Nazario Gerardi, Aldo Fabrizi, Arabella Lemaitre
Starring: Nazario Gerardi, Aldo Fabrizi, Arabella Lemaitre
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Screenwriter: Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini
Producer: Renzo Rossellini, Angelo Rizzoli
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Reviews for Francesco, Giullare Di Dio
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.
Rossellini's buoyant 1950 masterpiece is a glorious hallucination of perfect harmony between man and nature.
The theme is less the simplicity of religion than the religiosity of simplicity.
a small film from a self-proclaimed atheist illustrates spiritual truths far more profoundly than more widely screened spectacles
Rossellini's film has an uncomplicated charm and an effortless beauty.
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.
Pious and earthy, crude and artful, filled with pithy religious lessons but devoid of moralizing.
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.
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