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Movie Overview
Cast
• Claude Laydu
Director
• Robert Bresson
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
The Diary of a Country Priest (1950)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh
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3/5
"even if you dig the physical sickness as metaphor for spiritual sickness bit, you'll grok this fully within 10 minutes of the start of the film"  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

86/100
"Bresson's Christ allegory is surprisingly powerful and unexpectedly (for this old agnostic) affecting,"  Cinemania  Dan Jardine

A+
"can be viewed as the closest thing to a genuine religious experience in film."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

4/4
"Robert Bresson delivers a seemingly simple account of one priest's spiritual challenges in his masterful, moving Diary of a Country Priest."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

A+
"Profoundly contemplates suffering, conversion, incorrigibility, and the dark night of the soul with rigor and insight evoking the Confessions or Story of a Soul."  Decent Films Guide  Steven D. Greydanus
OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh
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