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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 3.5/4 |
one of the cinema's loveliest spiritual explorations Full Review |
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Pious and earthy, crude and artful, filled with pithy religious lessons but devoid of moralizing. Full Review |
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A timeless treat. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Rossellini shows a great compassion and humor for the friars. Full Review |
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B- |
a small film from a self-proclaimed atheist illustrates spiritual truths far more profoundly than more widely screened spectacles Full Review |
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4/4 |
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 |
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3.5/5 |
a film for the faithful Full Review |
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4/4 |
The theme is less the simplicity of religion than the religiosity of simplicity. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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Rossellini's film has an uncomplicated charm and an effortless beauty. Full Review |
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A+ |
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. Full Review |
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Rossellini's buoyant 1950 masterpiece is a glorious hallucination of perfect harmony between man and nature. Full Review |
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