Could BYU quarterback Zach Wilson really win the Heisman Trophy? Share All sharing options for: Film review: Under the Sun of Satan. There is a canny bit of editing by Yann Dedet ("Loulou," "À nos amours") to transition from Donissan's story to Mouchette's (Sandrine Bonnaire, luminous). Under the Sun of Satan . Cinematographer Kurant describes Pialat's often confounding methods, stating that he believes he never worked with him again because he dared to shoot a movie for another filmmaker in Pialat's home town. In Behind the Scenes Footage, Depardieu has trouble keeping a straight face as a bull lows in the background. This movie is too ethereal and high-handed for that. Cloudflare Ray ID: 5e65f47f3e4bce4f • The Utah-based activist, who traveled the country raising awareness of the damage social media can have on youths’ mental and emotional health, died unexpectedly. In an interview with Depardieu, in which he almost melts into the couch he's sitting on, the actor describes his 'true love' with Pialat and reads from Bernanos' text. • Though unrated it would doubtless get a PG for violence and implied sex. By. The blu ray: In addition to the stunning restoration, there is a second disk packed with over two hours of extras. The film is mysterious and powerful. This is a movie so slow and boring you won't find yourself pondering its many incongruities because you'll be too busy making up grocery lists in your mind or wondering what to fix Aunt Tillie for dinner Saturday. Maurice Pialat France, 1987 You don’t remember Satan as much for what happens in it as for the visual and thematic intensity with which it joins the holy, the horrific, and the utterly mundane, and for how palpably it externalizes Donissan’s anguish, without the actor or the movie overdoing it. He mortifies himself with hair shirts and flagellation in order to get closer to God. Depardieu has never been better than he is here displaying the physicality of a laborer and the countenance of a troubled soul. Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers. 4 years ago. This controversial 1987 Palme d'Or winner, which was famously booed at Cannes, has been difficult to see until last year's traveling Pialat retrospective. She is visiting her married lover Cadignan (Alain Artur, 1988's "Chocolat"), her peevish response to his refusal to marry her that she will soon become the mistress of Dr. Gallet (editor Dedet). His reaction to her suicide is a scandal, Pialat depicting a far darker Communion than the one which was celebrated right before we met Mouchette. June 17, 2016. After an introduction to Depardieu's rather torturous methods of self-flagellation and some talky explanations of his feelings about the world being too sinful and himself being above it all, or something like that, the film suddenly shifts to the story of a pregnant teenage girl, played by Sandrine Bonnaire. Blu-ray Review: Under the Sun of Satan. ‎Under the Sun of Satan (1987) directed by Maurice Pialat • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd Published. These scenes with Bonnaire go on for so long with Depardieu completely absent from the film that you may wonder if a reel from some other movie was accidentally substituted. He mortifies himself with hair shirts and flagellation in order to get closer to God.

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