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Under Satan’s Sun / Sous le soleil de Satan
Series: Tough and Tender: The Films of Gérard Depardieu [Aug. 3 - 19, 2007]
Director: Maurice Pialat, Country: France, Release: 1987, Runtime: 93

Under Satan’s Sun is Maurice Pialat’s rigorously intense adaptation of Georges Bernanos’ novel. When the director mounted the stage to accept the Palme d’Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, he was greeted with boos and whistles. His response to the crowd? “I don’t like you either.” Janet Maslin, writing in the New York Times during the film’s showing at The 1987 New York Film Festival, reflected the Cannes jury’s opinion: “The miraculous, the visionary and the diabolical fuse here in a film that grapples simply and powerfully with the unknown....It’s a work of great subtlety, some difficulty and tremendous assurance, one that demands and deserves close attention.”

A tough film, but a rewarding one, possessed of an almost supernatural intensity: Depardieu is nothing short of astonishing as the priest who sacrifices his spirit, his health and even his faith itself to his commitment to God. And the young Sandrine Bonnaire is absolutely frightening as the doomed Mouchette.




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