- Actors: Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel, Rachel Brendt
- Directors: Robert Bresson
- Writers: Robert Bresson, Georges Bernanos
- Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language: French
- Subtitles: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Paradox
- Release Date: Feb 3 2004
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000127IF2
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#34,210 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #32 in DVD > Classics > International > France
- #32 in DVD > Art House & International > By Country > France > Classics
- #32 in DVD > Art House & International > By Genre > Classics > France
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The state of art
Mar 26 2004
Format:DVD
Is it necessary to say this is mude film with almost unneccesary subtitles. The superb eloquence in Bresson's language supported on Bernanos'story give us the most intimate portrait of a priest in a lost village.
The poetic images are enriched by a precise dialogue. The multiple reflections derivated from the story are so many that you must see this movie several times , a priest with epic sense in a dark neighborhood. The methapors are everywhere, in the images, in the suggested ideas beyond the visual language.
In this sense nobody could give a best homage to Bresson's art that his friend Tarkovsky, who after knowing him said in Paris these wise words: If we admit that Bresson is the biggest filmaker in the world, then the filmaker who is in the second place, really is in the tenth".
I sincerely recomend to get one work of Andre Bazin titled What's is the cinema? where Bazin (who belonged to Cahiers du Cinema) offers an amazing and exhaustive analysis about this film.
The poetic images are enriched by a precise dialogue. The multiple reflections derivated from the story are so many that you must see this movie several times , a priest with epic sense in a dark neighborhood. The methapors are everywhere, in the images, in the suggested ideas beyond the visual language.
In this sense nobody could give a best homage to Bresson's art that his friend Tarkovsky, who after knowing him said in Paris these wise words: If we admit that Bresson is the biggest filmaker in the world, then the filmaker who is in the second place, really is in the tenth".
I sincerely recomend to get one work of Andre Bazin titled What's is the cinema? where Bazin (who belonged to Cahiers du Cinema) offers an amazing and exhaustive analysis about this film.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
"All is grace"
Aug 11 2007
Format:DVD
"Diary of a country priest" (1951), directed by Robert Bresson and based on a well-known novel by Georges Bernanos, is a beautiful masterpiece in black and white. Regarding this film, Bresson said that "(...) I wasn't faithful to the style of Bernanos, and I omitted details which I disliked. But I was faithful to the spirit of the book and to what it inspired in me as I read it".
This film recounts the spiritual journey of a new priest (played by Claude Laydu) that has to face unfriendly people in his first parish at the same time he suffers from ill health and doubts regarding his faith. The story is told mainly thanks to journal entries, something that allows the spectator to be privy to the priest's inner thoughts, and struggle with him when he faces different kinds of problems.
As you can probably imagine, it is not easy to watch this film. Nonetheless, I strongly recommend it, as Bresson manages to capture the anguish and fierceness of the battle played in this young man's heart, and show us that interior drama in excruciating detail.
Belen Alcat
This film recounts the spiritual journey of a new priest (played by Claude Laydu) that has to face unfriendly people in his first parish at the same time he suffers from ill health and doubts regarding his faith. The story is told mainly thanks to journal entries, something that allows the spectator to be privy to the priest's inner thoughts, and struggle with him when he faces different kinds of problems.
As you can probably imagine, it is not easy to watch this film. Nonetheless, I strongly recommend it, as Bresson manages to capture the anguish and fierceness of the battle played in this young man's heart, and show us that interior drama in excruciating detail.
Belen Alcat
Great Film, bad transfer
Mar 17 2004
Format:DVD
It is amazing to me that Criterion would realease such a landmark film of the French Cinema on DVD, in this condition. The transfer looks great, the only problem is that the film is loose in the gate, causing it to jump and move in and out of focus. This tends to subside a little as the film progresses, but was very dissapointing to an ardent Bresson fan, and will be to anyone who enjoys Bresson's classic "cinematography".
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Ehhhh
This is far from Bresson's best work. In fact, after having read the book, I found this film a disappointment. Read more
Published on Jun 13 2004 by J from NY
A Film of Intense Luminosity
Bresson's screen adaptation of Bernanos' novel brilliantly plumbs the depths of one soul's quest for redemption. Read more
Published on Feb 25 2004 by John C. Allan
Bresson's vision in daunting simplicity...
Through the journaling of a young priest the audience can follow the priest's first assignment as he is managing the small parish Ambricourt, which is located on the French... Read more
Published on Feb 9 2004 by Kim Anehall
A Strange and Beautiful Film
Diary of a Country Priest, which made Bresson a name in French cinema, is one of the most perplexing films I've ever seen, despite being one of his earliest. Read more
Published on Feb 7 2004
Best of Bresson
Andrei Tarkovsky said once in an interview that among all the directors who made films of a spiritual nature,(among them Mizoguchi,Bergman, and Kurosawa) Bresson was the most... Read more
Published on Nov 2 2003
Oh, the miracle of our empty hands!
"When art merges with mysticism, he can only be patient and as empty as possible" Sontag; from the book Transcendenal Style in Film by Paul Schrader. sums it up for me. Read more
Published on Jun 11 2003 by Yumi
The Face of Silence
Bresson set himself a special challenge in making a movie whose central drama is the writing of a diary. Read more
Published on Mar 7 2003 by Arch Llewellyn
Confessions of a Priest
I have not yet seen Bresson's earliest film The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne. That film was based on a Denis Diderot novel and that is not surprising as the Bresson films I have... Read more
Published on Aug 24 2002 by Doug Anderson
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