The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 84% of the 679 1950s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
291 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert BressonDirector
- Jean-Jacques GrünenwaldOriginal Music Composer
- Robert BressonScreenplay
Cast
- Claude LayduCuré d'Ambricourt
- Jean RiveyreLe Comte
- Adrien BorelPriest of Torcy
- Rachel BérendtLa Comtesse
- Nicole MaureyMiss Louise
- Nicole LadmiralChantal
- Martine LemaireSéraphita Dumontel
- Antoine BalpêtréDr. Delbende
- Jean DanetOlivier
- Gaston SéverinCanon
- Yvette EtiévantFemme de Ménage
- Bernard HubrennePrêtre Dufrety
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Themes
small townbased on novel or bookfaithpriestrural areablack and white