Diary of a Country Priest
Dir: Robert BressonCast: Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre
115mins 1951 France Certificate: PG French
Subtitled Diary of a Country Priest
Part of our Robert Bresson Season, introduced by Dr Martine Pierquin
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy.
But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanour make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students.
Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
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