View Item - FM-D073-1950

Language:
French
Catalog Num:
FM-D073-1950
Title:
Diary of a Country Priest
Item Type:
Video
Medium:
DVD

Reserved:
No
Status:
Available

A priest (Claude Laydu) arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God. With this, his fourth film, Robert Bresson began to implement his stylistic philosophy as a filmmaker, stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions, the dialogue, and the music, exacting a purity of image and sound.

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