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Originally Posted by demonrail666

Don't do this to me !@#$96i, Diary... is maybe the most beautiful film ever. The scene where the girl dismisses the priest outside the church is just incredible. I understand that you respect Bresson (Au hazard balthazar) so I don't include you in this, but I really believe that an age that generally can't see anything in his work has become too cynical to care about.

well i saw this movie at a time when my feelings about christian morality were getting more vitriolic, so perhaps this made me see the priest as some sort of fucking no-balls human worm torturing himself with his stupid fasts... like why should i care about this asshole? i think i didnt even finish the movie... now, this is very important: i was raised catholic, & have rejected the whole deal, in successive & ever more thorough waves, staring when i was 11 & recurring cyclically. and so that's why i said "maybe i hated it for subconscious reasons".

on the subject of bresson, a man escaped is fucking extraordinary and perhaps my favorite, and lancelot du lac stands out as one of the most bizarre movies i've ever seen. pickpocket was good too. all of bresson! oh and his adaptation of dostoevsky.. une femme douce? /edit: and mouchette!! /but this one, you're going to have to give me a get out of jail free card s'il-vous plaitez...