Diary of a Country Priest ( Journal d'un curé de campagne )

Diary of a Country Priest (DVD) (*)

$23.99

Original Title: Journal d'un curé de campagne
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1951 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Robert Bresson

Written By:
Robert Bresson
Georges Bernanos

Actors:
Claude Laydu ..... Priest of Ambricourt (Curé d'Ambricourt)
Jean Riveyre ..... Count (Le Comte)
Adrien Borel ..... Priest of Torcy (Curé de Torcy)
Rachel Bérendt ..... Countess (La Comtesse)
Nicole Maurey ..... Miss Louise
Nicole Ladmiral ..... Chantal
Martine Lemaire ..... Séraphita Dumontel
Antoine Balpêtré ..... Dr. Delbende (Docteur Delbende)
Jean Danet ..... Olivier
Gaston Séverin ..... Canon (Le Chanoine)
Yvette Etiévant ..... Femme de ménage
Bernard Hubrenne ..... Priest Dufrety
Léon Arvel ..... Fabregars
Martial Morange ..... Deputy mayor (L'Adjoint)
Gilberte Terbois ..... Mrs. Dumouchel (Mme Dumouchel)

Synopsis:

A new 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 his fourth film, Robert Bresson began to implement this 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.

In Ambricourt, a young Priest (Claude Laydu) arrives to be the local parish priest. The community of the small town does not accept him, and although having a serious disease in the stomach, the inexperienced and frail priest tries to help the dwellers, and has a situation with the wealthy family of the location.

Robert Bresson's bleak but richly photographed film is about the suffering and downfall of a young, critically ill priest (Claude Laydu) who struggles in vain to gain some kind, any kind, of ecclesiastical foothold in a rural area bent on circumventing him and the church.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 June, 2011.