Journal d'un curé de campagne 1951

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: 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. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: The full scope of the film's brilliance hits you with the force of a knockout punch. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: A masterpiece, beyond question. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The word 'sublime' has often been used to describe this Robert Bresson masterpiece, a slow-paced film of great purity that portrays the pain and occasional joy of the religious life. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A film that words fail. Read more

Doug Cummings, L.A. Weekly: Bresson's third feature and in many ways his first major work. Read more

Anthony Lane, New Yorker: The chance to see Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest... should not be passed up; it is an enterprise of great pith and moment in the history of cinema. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A film like Diary of a Country Priest gathers its strength as it continues. There's always the sense that Bresson knows exactly where he's going and the simplest way to get there. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Watching this spiritual odyssey is almost a religious experience in itself, but one which has nothing to do with faith or dogma, everything to do with Bresson's unique ability to exteriorise an interior world. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: The movie is experiential: The priest's suffering is not to be explained but lived. Read more