The Flowers of St Francis is a 1950 Italian film based on the life of St, Francis of Assisi. Roberto Rossellini is the director. It's a beautiful story, filled with joy and peace as suits St. Francis' life.
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Slant Magazine gives it 4 out of 4 stars. It's on the Arts & Faith list of Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films where they say, "The fruit of Rossellini's efforts is a beautifully simple little film that is as much a tribute to the spirit of humane curiosity in which the film itself was made as to the spiritual heritage that is its transcendent theme." The New Yorker says, "his [Rossellini's] nonjudgmental clarity reflects both the way they lived and his sense of wonder that anyone could ever have done so." It has a critics score of 100% at Rotten Tomatoes.
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100% on rotten tomatoes. That's amazing.
ReplyDeleteI was flipping through the channels right after the new pope was elected and saw part of this. Coming in in the middle it all seemed a little weird.
ReplyDeletetbm, the critics loved it. the audience score at rotten tomatoes is lower but still a quite respectable 84%.
ReplyDeletebob, "weird" is not a bad word to describe it. it's definitely an unusual movie.