Diary of a Country Priest
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“Maybe God meant for you to live in sadness.”
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Overview
Bresson's adaptation of the award-winning novel by Georges Bernanos won the Grand Prize at Venice Film Festival and regularly makes its (well deserved) way onto "greatest/watch before you die" lists. The new priest serving the rural village of Ambricourt is a man who seems born to suffer: faced with an indifferent and dwindling congregation and plagued by illness. His attempts to reconcile the petty squabbles between his remaining parishioners only increase the priest's self-doubts about his fitness as a man of God, and he begins to fear that God himself has abandoned him. In this spare framework Bresson weaves a beautiful and even sublime portrait of complex humanity and grace.
Why You Should See This Film
The influence Diary of a Country Priest had on cinema stretches beyond its famous director fans (Tarkovsky, Bergman, Michael Haneke and Pedro Costa have all ranked it as one of their favourites), providing the inspiration for Scorsese's Taxi Driver and basically Paul Schrader's entire oeuvre. Bresson's third feature work, it cemented his reputation in France and abroad as one of the very finest humanist filmmakers, with his strict ascetic formalism tempered by moments of tremendous warmth and vulnerability embodied in Claude Laydu's astonishing debut performance.
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