The chance to see Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest... should not be passed up; it is an enterprise of great pith and moment in the history of cinema.

Bresson's cinematographic tour de force is still incredibly impressive and affecting.

A film like Diary of a Country Priest gathers its strength as it continues. There's always the sense that Bresson knows exactly where he's going and the simplest way to get there.

Blank faces are often inscrutable, matter-of-fact line readings flirt with monotone, and motions across sets and landscapes are deliberate and modest. Yet... the performances that emerge are ultimately devastating and transparent in their revelations.