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Francesco, Giullare Di Dio (1950)

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Reviews Counted:14

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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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A timeless treat.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
07/13/06
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Premiere Magazine

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.

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03/25/06
Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
New York Times

a film for the faithful

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08/12/05
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Rossellini's buoyant 1950 masterpiece is a glorious hallucination of perfect harmony between man and nature.

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04/25/01
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
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Rossellini shows a great compassion and humor for the friars.

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02/05/06
Dennis Schwartz
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07/22/05
Emanuel Levy
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The theme is less the simplicity of religion than the religiosity of simplicity.

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08/09/05
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine

one of the cinema's loveliest spiritual explorations

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08/24/06
Jay Antani
Jay Antani
Perihelion Journal

a small film from a self-proclaimed atheist illustrates spiritual truths far more profoundly than more widely screened spectacles

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09/24/05
John A. Nesbit
John A. Nesbit
Old School Reviews

Rossellini's film has an uncomplicated charm and an effortless beauty.

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05/31/05
Matt Bailey
Matt Bailey
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

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.

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
08/20/05
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

Pious and earthy, crude and artful, filled with pithy religious lessons but devoid of moralizing.

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07/14/06
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

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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12/07/04
Steven D. Greydanus
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