If you loved Au Hasard Balthazar, try Diary of a Country Priest
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Robert Bresson, and they both carry the foreign gem, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Au Hasard Balthazar, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Diary of a Country Priest is
A Catholic version of Taxi Driver, without Travis Bickle's guns. A young, sickly priest arrives in a rural French village, where his asceticism alienates the locals. Bresson's stark, spiritual study of doubt is a landmark of French cinema.
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