Diary of a Country Priest

Director: Robert Bresson

1951 / 115min / DCP

The film in which the mature style Bresson would continue to pursue and refine through the rest of his career—non-professional “model” performers, affectless performances, scenes fragmented into unexpected shot sequences—emerged fully formed. Adapting Georges Bernanos’s novel of the same name, Bresson depicts the physical deprivation and the inner bounty of a young priest (Claude Laydu) freshly arrived in a new parish, trying to tend to his flock as he himself wastes away.

Distributor: Rialto