A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish, but the apathetic and hostile rural congregation reject him immediately. Through his diary entries, the physically sick young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens not only to drive him away from the village, but also from God. With this, his fourth film, Bresson began to implement a stylistic philosophy in his film making, stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions, the dialo
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THE GARDEN (1990)
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Using Jarman's wooden shack on the pebble beaches of Dungeness as its visual focal point. The Garden is an allegorical tale that explores Jarman's views on Christianity in relation to homosexuality, and AIDS. A beautiful, ethereal film and a fine epitaph to a man with peerless vision.
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