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Perhaps those more closely familiar with the states of grace discussed in this film will be more alert to its meanings. This reviewer was completely confused.
A masterpiece, beyond question.
...about the unexpected - and little understood - intermingling of the earthly and the divine.
Writer/director Robert Bresson adapts his first Georges Bernanos novel (the second, 1967's "Mouchette," plays almost like a mirror image) for his moving paean to spirituality and grace achieved despite great obstacles.
The film leaves me with a sad, empty feeling inside so I guess Robert Bresson did his job.
Bresson's third feature and in many ways his first major work.
Bresson exemplified 20th-century ecumenical intelligence that is much out of fashion today, yet remains singular and powerful.
Bresson sees spiritual disorder as a disease, not unlike the stomach cancer we suspect is-and is ultimately confirmed to be-plaguing our titular character.
The full scope of the film's brilliance hits you with the force of a knockout punch.
Its rare glimpses of the French countryside are stark and striking, suggesting that any man who would truly pursue holiness will walk hard roads through desolate lands.
can be viewed as the closest thing to a genuine religious experience in film.
The paradoxical discovery of meaning in its apparent absence serves as a primary theme of the film as well as its aesthetic model.
Profoundly contemplates suffering, conversion, incorrigibility, and the dark night of the soul with rigor and insight evoking the Confessions or Story of a Soul.
Bresson's Christ allegory is surprisingly powerful and unexpectedly (for this old agnostic) affecting,
A thoughtful, delicate film that arrives on DVD as a balm for those weary of the ugly histrionics -- onscreen and off -- connected with 'The Passion of the Christ.'
Amazing direction but there are better stories of tested faith.
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