Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Mathematician, scientist, and writer René Descartes is relentlessly determined to establish the primacy of reason in Rossellini’s portrait of the travails of the “father of modern philosophy.” Cartesius is both entertaining and edifying.
Mathematician, scientist, and writer René Descartes is relentlessly determined to establish the primacy of reason in Rossellini’s portrait of the travails of the “father of modern philosophy.” Cartesius is both entertaining and edifying.