New 35mm Print! DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, 1951 May 18, 2012

Friday, May 18 – 7:30 PM
New 35mm Print! DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, 1951, Rialto Pictures, 115 min. Dir. Robert Bresson. Long considered a summit of world cinema, Bresson’s adaptation of George Bernanos’ renowned novel - about a young priest whose attempts to assuage the suffering of the people in his village are met with malice and indifference - established the austere style for which Bresson subsequently became famous. Claude Laydu, his downcast visage among the gallery of indelible faces in Bresson’s ouevre, brings a wounding soulfulness to his role as the ill-fated priest. “Still the screen’s most devastating account of the arduous ascent to sainthood, it achieves a lacerating honesty.” - Tom Milne. In French with English subtitles. [35mm]

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