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Bookmark this pageLe Dialogue des Carmélites (1959)
Director: RL Bruckberger, Philippe Agostini
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From Time Out Film Guide
Only Bresson, perhaps, could have done justice to Gertrud von le Fort's novel of Carmelite martyrdom during the French Revolution (already adapted for the stage by Bernanos and opera house by Poulenc). What it got instead was the ultra-static co-direction of Bresson's cinematographer (Agostini) and a fashionable 'literary' priest (Bruckberger). Though a potentially moving study of grace (in the most literal, theological sense) under pressure, neither of these qualities is very conspicuous in this pallid Sunday school picnic of a film.Author: GAd
Cast & crew
Director: RL Bruckberger, Philippe Agostini
Producer: Jules Borkon
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Alida Valli, Pascale Audret, Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Wilson, Jean-Louis Barrault, Claude Laydu full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 113 mins
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