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Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
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DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST

Journal d'un curé de campagne

Directed by Robert Bresson
France, 1951
Drama

Synopsis

A new priest arrives in the rural French village of Ambricourt to attend his first parish. The apathetic 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.

Synopsis

A new priest arrives in the rural French village of Ambricourt to attend his first parish. The apathetic 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.

Our take

Robert Bresson’s minimalist and transcendent portrait of a conflicted curate profoundly influenced a broad church of later directors from Tarkovsky, Scorsese & Schrader to Buñuel & Vláčil. This staggering look at the inner turmoil that runs alongside spiritual devotion goes in search of the sublime.