User:Obannongeneva/Diary of a Country Priest

Analysis
The film is a blending of dialogue and commentary, founded on the interior voice of the priest as much as on the filmed scenes. Faithful to the spirit of Georges Bernanos, the author of Journal d'un curé de campagne, Bresson strips the story open thoroughly by composing a sequence of exemplary sobriety. At such a point could François Truffaut say that the film, which he particularly admired, had each scenes that were "down-to-earth." (Bresson limits the most possible expressions and intonations of professional comedians; thus, for this sequence, he did not work elsewhere with amateurs, which he called "models"). Forcing himself a remarkable distance from relation to his subject who is "a man who limits perpetual states of the soul," he refuses all melodramatic effects and all mystic interpretations.

A profoundly religious and Christian film, Diary of a Country Priest is also the exploration of being a rebel of prey to a fixed idea, a thing that is constant in the work of Bresson. Absent of all "psychologism," like all judgement of value, the author uniquely raises ce qui lui semble suffisant de dévoiler, thereby making Diary of a Country Priest a captivating and mysterious work.