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La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)

Director: Jean Delannoy

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A French Protestant pastor (Blanchar) falls in love with his blind ward (Morgan, the ’40s Faye Dunaway). Delannoy’s version of Gide’s then still scandalous novel is correct, melancholy, icy. That’s his auteurial tone. André Bazin admired the movie, and speculated that its emphasis on snow was a true filmic equivalent of Gide’s use of tenses. It oddly mixes hot drama, cold style, and an accusatory stance; and the weathering of age may have sharpened its Sirkian effect.

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Director: Jean Delannoy

Cast: Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar, Line Noro, Louvigny, Jean Desailly, Andrée Clément full cast

Duration: 105 mins


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