Blank faces are often inscrutable, matter-of-fact line readings flirt with monotone, and motions across sets and landscapes are deliberate and modest. Yet... the performances that emerge are ultimately devastating and transparent in their revelations.

| Aug 12, 2022

Manages to marry human concerns with cosmic questions without making a big deal about either, and without giving either short shrift.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 22, 2020

What is unique about Bresson's film is that the images could go without - I think they should - the words that are used to describe these images. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 18, 2020

A seemingly literary exercise, but one that slowly and memorably imprints itself sensorially by the final reel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2018

Bernanos' Catholic yoke via Robert Bresson's agnostic compassion, an incomparable flow of encounters and challenges

| Nov 8, 2015

The chance to see Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest... should not be passed up; it is an enterprise of great pith and moment in the history of cinema.

| Mar 5, 2013

Bresson's cinematographic tour de force is still incredibly impressive and affecting.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 5, 2013

This sublime picture is directed by Robert Bresson, who painstakingly crafts his signature visuals -- stark, forceful and rigorous in their attention to detail -- to bring a striking luminosity to the bleak events.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2013

Diary is less a movie about the necessity of faith than what it means to be cut down in the midst of youthful idealism and intransigence, before life offers wisdom.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 5, 2013

A film like Diary of a Country Priest gathers its strength as it continues. There's always the sense that Bresson knows exactly where he's going and the simplest way to get there.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 5, 2013

...about the unexpected - and little understood - intermingling of the earthly and the divine.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 6, 2012

Writer/director Robert Bresson adapts his first Georges Bernanos novel (the second, 1967's "Mouchette," plays almost like a mirror image) for his moving paean to spirituality and grace achieved despite great obstacles.

| Original Score: A | Jan 6, 2012

The film leaves me with a sad, empty feeling inside so I guess Robert Bresson did his job.

| Original Score: B | Jan 6, 2012

Bresson's third feature and in many ways his first major work.

| May 5, 2011

A film that words fail.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 21, 2011

The word 'sublime' has often been used to describe this Robert Bresson masterpiece, a slow-paced film of great purity that portrays the pain and occasional joy of the religious life.

| Feb 26, 2011

Bresson exemplified 20th-century ecumenical intelligence that is much out of fashion today, yet remains singular and powerful.

| Feb 23, 2011

Bresson sees spiritual disorder as a disease, not unlike the stomach cancer we suspect is-and is ultimately confirmed to be-plaguing our titular character.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 23, 2011

The full scope of the film's brilliance hits you with the force of a knockout punch.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 23, 2011

The movie is experiential: The priest's suffering is not to be explained but lived.

| Feb 22, 2011