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An extraordinary film: Le Journal d�un Cur� de Campagne.

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I saw this film long, long time ago. It was slowly moving, and I had all my respect for it, but...Now I have discovered all the beauty of this film. It is the equal of a Bergman.
It shines.
That is all what it is about in life.
For a Criterion release it is bad. Sound compressed, images not really fine. I would see this one on an AM radio, if you understand the analogy, which I do not doubt.
It is the equal of the very best.
When the noise of LOTR or else has fade into our brains, then it is time to have redemption.
That is THIS one.

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I saw two of his films in a French film class, the other - tinear 11:12:55 07/11/04 (3)
being about a poor waif.
Both D R A G G E D, insufferably.
I cannot escape the thought that many directors of "art" films pace so glacially because they: a) don't have enough script to cover a full-length film; b) haven't woken to the realization that watching a film and reading a book are different.
- Re: I saw two of his films in a French film class, the other - patrickU 11:24:20 07/11/04 (2)
  Give it another try. Thirty years ago I had my problems too! But it is definitively a masterpiece.
  No doubt.
  - Ok, I will , when I get a chance: we're thinking of a move - tinear 07:02:31 07/12/04 (1)
    to a more civilized part of the country where---shock!---it will be possible to have access to a decent video store.
    - Re: Ok, I will , when I get a chance: we're thinking of a move - patrickU 07:25:45 07/12/04 (0)
      Let me know. But this really is definitively worth. I will lend it shortly to a friend of mine, and I am curious about his views..
Re: Le Journal d�un Cur� de Campagne. - Gee LP 17:17:58 07/10/04 (1)
"Diary of a Country Priest"? Verrrrry slow-moving. But the director is working at a different speed than the audience, which allows insights that a more impatient director would never be able to show.
Your analogy is true for all film fans: Better to see a great film in a chewed-up, contrasty copy, on a black-and-white TV, with tinny sound coming from one little speaker, than to see a lousy movie in a theatre with a pristine new print, on the best screen in the multiplex, with full, rich HPS4000 sound emanating from all directions. I know people who won't watch things in black-and-white, who will not sit down to see a "silent" movie, who are bored if the soundtrack is mono. They may "like" movies, but they do not love them!
- Re: Le Journal d�un Cur� de Campagne. - patrickU 01:43:10 07/11/04 (0)
  Once you are mentally and intellectually connect to its pace, you sometimes wishes even more details, and a film who would be even longer ( I think of the meeting with his fellow student who gave up priesterhood and live " in sin...)in his develloping.
  What is magnificent, is the way Bernardos turn the Catholic religion as ideally & ideelly it should be. Love and humanism.
  More in time and more I tend to think that the so-called big productions are poison for our senses. They replace the food of spirit with the kind of McDo.
  To take only in small quantity and not too often. That is what should be written ...

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