Black Robe R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 4, 2021
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg & Tantoo Cardinal | |
Performer: | Lawrence Bayne, Harrison Liu, Raoul Trujillo & Gordon Tootoosis | |
Directed by | Bruce Beresford | |
Screenplay by | Brian Moore | |
Composition by | Georges Delerue | |
Produced by | Robert Lantos, Sue Milliken & Stéphane Reichel | |
Director of Photography: | Peter James |
Entertainment Reviews:
This compelling tale of adventure set in 17th century Canada is a spiritual classic
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Black Robe is a film of enormous interest for those who care about the early history of Europeans in North America, but for ordinary moviegoers it will be very tough going.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...[A] raw and jolting adventure...
Rolling Stone
...This is one magnificent movie, one whose relatively untrod locations really do convince us that we're canoe-paddling in another century...
USA Today
Rating: A- --
A demanding film filled with complexities and meant for the discriminating viewer.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...BLACK ROBE has peripheral pleasures, which, because they are so seldom seen in movies, should not be underrated...
New York Times
Black Robe is a spectacle of haunting beauty...
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Maclean's Magazine
Product Description:
Director Bruce Beresford's abiding fascination with the clash of cultures is apparent in this adaptation of Brian Moore's novel of a Jesuit missionary who leaves France in 1634 to bring the word of Jesus to the Huron tribe of rugged northern Quebec. The film, which stars Lothaire Bluteau as LaForgue, casts aside the revisionist notion of the Native American as an enlightened being, superior to Caucasian interlopers, depicting the Huron world as one of ugliness and harshness. The missionary's arrogance blinds him to the Indians' preference for their own religious rituals over the faith he is attempting to thrust upon them. Yet, in his new proximity to nature and exposure to primitive mores that shock him, the priest begins to feel the bonds of his asceticism and question his faith. Finally, after being captured and tortured by a party of Iroquois, he begins to evince the compassion with which the conversion of the Hurons becomes possible. The tragic ramifications of this process are only revealed many years later. Bluteau is excellent in this bleak film, which includes some of the most meticulously researched representations of Native American life ever put on film.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Indians
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Race Relations
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Religion
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Wilderness
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Recommended
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Period Piece
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Clergy
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Theatrical Release
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 1,369
- UPC: 850028052037
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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