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Support Lacking for Mission Change at Miles City, Montana, Medical Center
HRD-87-13: Published: Feb 13, 1987. Publicly Released: Feb 13, 1987.
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In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Veterans Administration's (VA) proposal to change the Miles City, Montana, medical center from a predominately acute care to a predominately extended care facility, specifically: (1) the justification for the proposed change; (2) whether the change would be in the best interests of area veterans; and (3) how easily VA could implement the change.
GAO found that: (1) although the proposed change would offer increased access to area veterans needing extended care, it would decrease convenient access to care for veterans needing surgery; (2) the costs VA used to justify the mission change were inaccurate and its cost-saving estimates were inconsistent; (3) VA planning projections showed a need to increase rather than eliminate surgical beds; and (4) VA did not compare the relative advantages and disadvantages to area veterans of converting the medical center. GAO also found that: (1) the local community hospital has the capability to handle emergency surgical referrals from the medical center; (2) some VA hospitals would have the capacity to absorb an increased work load of nonemergency surgical patients; (3) increased travel could present certain problems to veterans, even though the medical district has implemented revised procedures designed to minimize these problems; (4) VA travel funding constraints might cause veterans to pay for their travel to other VA hospitals or obtain care from other sources; (5) the medical center has the authority to set up outreach clinics; and (6) although the medical center had not officially closed its inpatient surgical service as of January 21, 1987, it had decreased the number of acute medicine beds, increased the number of intermediate medicine beds, established two outreach clinics, and begun performing more outpatient surgery.
Status Legend:
- Review Pending
- Open
- Closed - implemented
- Closed - not implemented
Recommendation for Executive Action
Recommendation: The Administrator, Veterans Affairs, should address the cost, planning, and trade-off issues this report raised, as well as the potential quality-of-care issue, before making a final decision on the proposed mission change.
Agency Affected: Veterans Administration
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: A VA task force visited the Miles City, Montana VAMC and reviewed the issues identified in the report.
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Johanna "Anneke" Fultz, 65, Logansport, passed away at 8:11 a.m. Monday, May 13, 2013, in Chase Center, after a painful battle with cancer.
Born July 1, 1947, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Anneke was the daughter of Peter van Gompel and Emma Visser, both of Amsterdam. While vacationing in Hanau, Germany with her parents, Anneke met Jack Fultz who was serving in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Hanau. After a year of long-distance dating (seven hours by train), Anneke and Jack were married in Amsterdam, honeymooned in Paris and settled in Hanau. With Jack having nearly completed his tour of duty, Anneke, now eight months pregnant, flew from Frankfort, Germany, to Indianapolis where she met her in-laws, Jack M. and Georgia Fultz, for the first time May 5, 1966. They had only known each other through letters and a couple phone calls. On May 16, Anneke gave birth to Tamara Donnella Fultz.
On June 6, 1966, Jack returned to Logansport and saw his daughter for the first time. After a few months, Anneke started working at the Logansport Gossard Factory as a seamstress, a job she held before quitting to become as full-time housewife.
Anneke had a diverse list of interests. She loved to read romance mysteries. For several years, she served at one time or another as every elected office of the City of Bridges Jim Beam Bottle Collectors club. She attended years of district club meetings throughout the Midwest, once crossing paths with an elevator full of Secret Service agents assigned to protecting Walter Mondale while he was campaigning for the presidency.
On March 5, 2010, Anneke applied for and passed all the requirements to become an American citizen. That was probably the proudest day of her life. She went on to become a precinct vice chairman and worked on the campaigns of several state and national politicians.
Anneke loved to go to casinos from Las Vegas to Atlantic City hoping to strike it rich on the penny slot machines. She loved to collect Santa Clauses, having several hundred from Holland, Africa, Australia, the U.S. and even one or two made in China. She also got involved with a well-known breeder of championship Bichon Frize dogs. She soon had her first rescue dog, and started helping the breeder with welping puppies, grooming and helping at shows throughout the Midwest. This soon lead to camping and the purchase of a fifth-wheel second home. She shortly had her second dog, one who was loveable but not show quality. When the breeder became unable to continue, she awarded Anneke with a third dog, one who had won a national specialty show championship. These three four-legged children became the loves of her life along with her daughter and grandsons.
Anneke was preceded in death by both parents, a brother and several nieces and nephews.
Survivors include husband Jack, Logansport; daughter, Tamara and grandson, Cody, both of Wheeling, Ill.; grandson Brett, Chicago; one brother and several nieces and nephews scattered all around the globe.
Memorial contributions may be made in Anneke's name to the "Wounded Warrior Project."
Arrangements have been made with Kroeger Funeral Home with Father Mike McKinney officiating. The funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday, with visitation from noon to 2 p.m. before the funeral. Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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The Bright Lights Of America - Anti-Flag
- Summary: The ninth album for the quartet from Pittsburg, Pa., was produced by Tony Visconti.
- Record Label: RCA
- Genre(s): Rock, Punk
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Score distribution:
Positive: 3 out of 10
Mixed: 7 out of 10
Negative: 0 out of 10
Their thrillingly angry seventh album is a more furious companion piece to "American Idiot," raging at both social injustice and the self-righteousness of the punk underground. [June 2008, p.138]
Their sound--enhanced by the energies of a second guitarist, Chris Head, and a bassist, Chris #2--literally urges participation. Every song's chorus helpfully comes prearranged as a sing-along: no room for sullenness here.
Bright Lights is a super-serious record that demostrates some super-serious song craft. [May 2008, p.130]
Too much of the disc, like the histrionic "The Modern Rome Burning," swipes singsong, folk-stoked stridency from Against Me! and American Steel; the rest of it throws random orchestration at the wall and misses it altogether.
Even if Anti-Flag's hearts are in the right place, Bright Lights of America is too vague to be impactful.
The ambitious sound of The Bright Lights of America is a dreadful fifty-two minutes long; with an average song length over three minutes.
On the Tony Visconti produced The Bright Lights of America, the band opts for the same brand of pristine song production and testosterone-soaked chants as every other mall-punk band, and, in so doing, makes it hard to discern them from the crowd. [Summer 2008]
Score distribution:
Positive: 2 out of 5
Mixed: 2 out of 5
Negative: 1 out of 5
Jul 5, 2011I was disappointed by this album overall. The sound of the lyrics was way different than previous albums, which I attribute to the affiliation with a major label. The lyrics sound as if they were all written to be sort of anthem-esque, which is fine for a few songs, but when a whole album is written this way, it comes off overly epic. Bothered me a ton and i won't even listen to this song anymore. Its meaningful message and this bands history is this album's only saviors. I love AF... which is why I have such strong feelings about this album. And as far as punk music goes... didn't do it justice.… Expand
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars "All is grace"
"Diary of a country priest" (1951), directed by Robert Bresson and based on a well-known novel by Georges Bernanos, is a beautiful masterpiece in black and white. Regarding this film, Bresson said that "(...) I wasn't faithful to the style of Bernanos, and I omitted details which I disliked. But I was faithful to the spirit of the book and to what it inspired in me as I...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Powerful Film That Requires Close Attention
DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, (1951). This black and white, classic 115 minute French film was adapted by acclaimed French director Robert Bresson, (LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE),from a well-known French novel by Georges Bernanos. It concerns the priest of the small French village of Ambricourt, in the vicinity of Lille .It appears to take place at an earlier time,...
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5.0 out of 5 stars "All is grace",
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This review is from: Criterion Coll: Diary of Country Priest [DVD] [1951] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
"Diary of a country priest" (1951), directed by Robert Bresson and based on a well-known novel by Georges Bernanos, is a beautiful masterpiece in black and white. Regarding this film, Bresson said that "(...) I wasn't faithful to the style of Bernanos, and I omitted details which I disliked. But I was faithful to the spirit of the book and to what it inspired in me as I read it".
This film recounts the spiritual journey of a new priest (played by Claude Laydu) that has to face unfriendly people in his first parish at the same time he suffers from ill health and doubts regarding his faith. The story is told mainly thanks to journal entries, something that allows the spectator to be privy to the priest's inner thoughts, and struggle with him when he faces different kinds of problems.
As you can probably imagine, it is not easy to watch this film. Nonetheless, I strongly recommend it, as Bresson manages to capture the anguish and fierceness of the battle played in this young man's heart, and show us that interior drama in excruciating detail.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable film,
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This review is from: Diary Of A Country Priest [DVD] [1951] (DVD)
A young Priest goes to a French rural village and is disliked by the villagers.He has an unknown stomach ailment and is weak and ailing,living on a diet of bread, soaked in sugar and wine.Being austere and idealistic he wants to save souls.People want things for nothing,like a rich farmer,old Fabregars, who wants a cheap no-cost funeral for his wife.The aristocratic family draw him in to their web of problems,the wife,the mistress,the daughter.He is told by a priestly mentor to change his eating habits.He is often faint and morose.He needs to toughen up and not expect to be loved but give spiritual discipline.He has the masochistic misery of a martyr.
He identifies with Christ at Golgotha.Bresson shows the priest as isolated and lonely,in need of love, and approval.He highlights this aspect, by showing him behind glass,seen through window frames.It may be raining or snowing outside but he is trapped in his cell,imprisoned in his own mind.He is drawn to similarly lonely people: the Countess,Seraphita,Chantal and Dr.Delbende.The Journal and the voiceover are Bresson's primary means to detail the Priest of Ambricourt's inner life.The very real writing of pen on paper, is a repetitive ritual throughout the film, blotting, scratching, closing: capturing the soul's immaterial thoughts,ideas and emotions.Similarly the raking of the ground outside mirrors the lining of his stomach.He is a psychological misfit.
He is mocked and tormented by his favoured student,Seraphita,at catechism classes.The Count dislikes him interfering with his family.He tells the Count his barn is empty and field is barren, and could be put to more productive uses for the villagers.He has been asked by the Governess, Louise,to intercede in a conflict involving her pupil,Chantal,the Count's daughter.Chantal tests the priest's compassion, by threatening suicide,she is manipulative, and pours scorn on the priest.In the film's most central scene, he is drawn into ministering to the Countess, imparting his suspicions about Chantal.He admits he fears death, but says he fears her death more.She is tormented and grieves for the loss of her son.He succeeds in helping her find inner peace.He admits the miracle of being able to give what he doesn't have himself.Chantal,unable to comprehend the change in her mother, misinterprets his actions as cruel,and begins to denounce the idealistic priest.
Bresson's film shows a visual metaphor of the spiritual life through his physical malady and the journal entries, the use of long and short shots,the harsh reality of the existence of a man of faith in a secular world.He is slowly consumed by stomach cancer as we learn later. The emotional power builds up through use of minimal dialogue and camera- in- face shots-the man's final moments distilled and captured in a single shot. The final image of an isolated cross encapsulates the profound suffering of this nameless priest.His last words:"What does it matter?All is grace".The priest is free at last.Based on a novel by Bernanos,given treatment of a high order.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a distillation of everything essential,
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This review is from: Diary Of A Country Priest [DVD] [1951] (DVD)
Diary Of A Country Priest is one of Bresson's most powerful films. For me, the nameless priest is a beacon of sincerity and humility. He has the gentleness of the lamb (Zurbaran ... ), and much compassion. Bresson focuses only on what is essential in his dealings with others, and on his solitude in his first parish where nobody wants him. Everything is filtered through a fairly small number of characters, usually seen individually, and the community seems diffuse, with no hub or sense of mutual concern. His superior, the curé de Torcy, doesn't even live there, nor possibly does the doctor, Delbende. The main character's comings and goings, often covering the same ground on his way to the chateau, for instance, are set to a Brucknerian score that seems quite lavish in relation to the rest of the film, and to many of Bresson's other films, where music tends to be used sparingly. Here it carries the sense of the priest's inner self and gives it outward expression, a counterpoint to his diary entries which we both see and hear in his voice. All his exchanges with others tend to be quite terse. The one with the Countess has a rigour that is quite exhilarating, really - almost expansive within its strict terms - as it is not an easy spirituality that is being explored, and thus all phonyness is avoided. Rather, it speaks of an elevation of the soul through arduousness, triumphing even over his physical agony at the end, from which the camera discreetly turns away. Nevertheless, it is a very moving conclusion. The sobriety of the acting is striking, with Claude Laydu making an indelible impression as the hapless man of God, accepting the inevitable with altruism and selflessness.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Much angst, powerfully if slowly presented,
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This review is from: Criterion Coll: Diary of Country Priest [DVD] [1951] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Robert Bresson's story of a young and inexperienced priest trying to serve God and the villagers of Ambricourt could easily be called, by a smart ass, Diary of a Country Sad Sack. This young man is without social skills, is innocent and tends to the absolute, and finds himself without friends, openly made fun of, and struggling to find the purpose of what he does when no one wants him. We learn he is seriously ill. Bresson films him luminously with a strong hint of Jesus in some scenes.
For many of faith this movie might be too frustrating, even with a sort of redemptive end. For many like me, the movie might not be all that involving if it weren't for Robert Bresson's immense talent as a moviemaker. Even so, the movie is filled with Bresson's words that seem to carry great freight but may sound better than they mean, whatever it is they mean. "Our hidden sins poison the air that others breathe." "The simplest tasks are by no means the easiest." "He [God] is not the master of love. He is love itself. If you would love, don't place yourself beyond love's reach."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars "What does it matter? All is grace.",
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This review is from: Diary Of A Country Priest [DVD] [1951] (DVD)
Robert Bresson's 1950 masterpiece Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne) is a film which has achieved legendary status largely due to many (Andrei Tarkovsky and Martin Scorsese among them) claiming it to be an important and inspiring contribution to the religious discourse of our time. It was Bresson's third feature and the one that defines the way his future films will be. Texturally, this is the first of two adaptations of the Catholic monarchist writer Georges Bernanos (the second will be Mouchette) and the first of three consecutive films which will be narrated in a first person voice-over. The narratives of A Man Escaped (1956), Pickpocket (1959) and this one are all the stories of one man's spiritual odyssey through doubt and failure to ultimate redemptive grace told as written (or as written later) so as to give us a profound look into the character's soul. Visually, the film announces the stark, spare austerity which will be a Bresson trademark from hereon in. The cinematographer Léonce-Henri Burel shot all the films from here through to The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) and there is a certain uniformity of look though Bresson does temper his visual treatment according to his material - he always saw himself as a `cinematographer' rather than a `director' and each film was the start of a new investigation for him. Nevertheless, the grey mundane focus on `process' rather than `result' is omnipresent with seemingly bizarre framing and an eschewing of grand spectacle well to the fore. In relation to this, this film also announces the rejection of professionals in favor of amateur `models'. The only professional actor in the film is Rachel Bérendt who plays the countess. Claude Laydu was the first model to announce the stunning success of Bresson's technique for though he is forced to look blank and expressionless throughout the film without any noticeable `acting' he still delivers an extraordinarily vulnerable performance which is seen by many as one of the very best in any motion picture.
In some ways Diary of a Country Priest is a transitional work throwing back as it does to the style of Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945). Melodrama is not totally eschewed as the priest wanders around his parish and we are given confrontational scenes which work in the traditional manner along with an overt Brucknerian musical score from Jean-Jacques Grünenwald which is used consistently throughout. Music will gradually disappear from Bresson's films until the complete silence of L'Argent (1983). Au hasard Balthazar (1966) is the last film where music is omnipresent and the director later regretted he used Schubert there so much.
Put basically, Bresson's concern was always with the basic metaphysics underpinning the human condition - the reasons we live, the factors that propel human life from birth to death and beyond. As I have outlined in my other Bresson reviews his aesthetic is informed by Catholicism, in his case the peculiar French strain of predestinarian Jansenism. In a Bresson film protagonists function in any given narrative to fulfill whatever has been predestined for them to fulfill. They have no free will of their own and usually the film charts a journey which becomes in effect an unknowing search for spiritual redemption, for grace. Conventional character psychology has no place in a Bresson work - it doesn't matter what happens between life and death, the result will be the same - such is the nature of predestination. Throughout the protagonists will be `acted on' from on high as they are guided towards their fate. Diary of a Country Priest is the first Bresson film to really state all of this fully. If we compare the priest with the characters of Fontaine (A Man Escaped), Michel (Pickpocket), Jeanne (The Trial of Joan of Arc), the donkey Balthazar (Au hasard Balthazar) and Mouchette we find he is just one in a succession of surrogates for Jesus Christ negotiating the 7 Stations of the Cross on the way to Calvary and to an ultimate attainment of redemptive grace.
A negotiation of the 7 stations of the cross in a Bresson film necessitates a confrontation of the main character with the 7 deadly sins - lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride which should be (but mostly aren't) counter-balanced by the seven Catholic virtues - chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility. This confrontation is faced head-on when the priest (Laydu) arrives in Normandy to take charge of his first parish having just qualified as a priest. The first thing to greet him through a barred gate is the Baron (Jean Riveyre ) kissing the governess (Nicole Maurey) of his daughter. The Baron looks at him as if he is an intruder and walks away without greeting. This `lust' is quickly followed by the `greed' of a rich landowner who refuses to pay the full price for his wife's funeral even though he can afford to; the `gluttony' of a serviceman who having told the priest he may receive electricity in his house after 3-4 months puts his efforts into arranging dance parties so the locals can binge themselves to his great profit; the `wrath' of his immediate superior the Priest of Torcy (Adrian Borel) who tells our hapless priest off for being too na�ve; the `envy' and the `pride' of the Baron's daughter Chantal (Nicole Ladmiral) who can't understand his power to make the Baroness (Rachel Bérendt) get over the loss of her son and see the light of the Lord. Her mother's subsequent death gives her a chance to assert her `pride'. As inheritor of the estate she forces her father to send the governess away and to keep everything for herself.
Faced with an awful barrage of sin, the priest is shaken to the core of his being. He arrives at his parish already feeling sick with some vague kind of stomach complaint and we acknowledge his probable destiny. As he wanders from sinner to sinner constantly being used and abused he clings to his faith as a cripple might cling to his crutches. He only allows himself to consume dried bread soaked in red wine - transubstantiation evoking the Eucharist - God's body and spirit which he naively thinks is all he needs. But of course he wastes away and as the villagers turn on him (especially after the death of the countess which many - egged on by the daughter - suggest he caused) his consumption of wine is misinterpreted as alcoholism. This misinterpretation possibly turns into truth when he is forced to leave his parish and go to Lille to get a diagnosis of his medical condition. He learns he is in the last stages of stomach cancer. A long scene in a bar is followed by a visit to an old friend from the seminary who became a priest at the same time but has since given up the faith and is now living in sin with a woman who won't marry him. It is there that he spends his last days, eventually dying in complete apparent abjection. And yet as related right at the end through his friend's letter read out while Bresson's camera points at the shadow of a cross on the wall he still has faith and therefore has still lived the `right' life. As he famously says: "What does it matter? All is grace".
The mise-en-scène that Bresson deploys throughout this film to tell his metaphysical fable is extraordinarily concise in the way it stresses insistently how the priest is imprisoned within his own ascetic world which is cut-off from the real world in which he has to live. Note the very first sequence when he arrives. We see a close up of his face and then a shot of him through the bars of the chateau gate. Then we see the Baron and the governess kissing and the Baron's `keep your nose out of our business' look. We see at the very beginning that the priest is not welcome and will never be welcome. He will always be shut out, ostracized and marginalized. Also, of course, despite his huge efforts to try to get close to the villagers, he will always be shut in by the very nature of his appearance, his health, his inexperience as a priest and his na�ve attitude to those around him. Throughout the film Bresson shoots the priest through latticed windows, doorways and in confined spaces. This use of imprisonment came to the fore in Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne and will appear through the rest of his films. Usually this gives voice to the universal metaphysical yearning for freedom, for personal betterment, for spiritual rejuvenation, for release from one's constraints whether they be social, marital, material or of another kind. In this film the constraints are both imposed from outside (the village refusing to accept him) and from inside (his weakness at grasping and adapting to practicalities which could make his vocation easier).
The most interesting scene of the film is the one where the priest talks to the Baroness and scores the only `success' during his stay in this parish. The language is difficult and perhaps only Catholics will grasp the whole meaning. The situation is that the woman is living effectively alone. Her husband carries on affairs with other women while her daughter disrespects and ignores her. The only thing she has to cling onto is her love of her dearly departed - her son. No doubt this was the reason which turned her daughter against her and it has also made her into a selfish, withdrawn miserable wretch. And yet the priest makes her see the error in her ways (`sloth' perhaps) and the woman gradually is convinced so that she throws a locket containing a picture of her son into the fire. The priest quickly rescues it. At this point we hear the sound of raking coming from outside the window. Bresson cuts to show the daughter listening. The way she looks is the very picture of evil. It is as if the sound of the rake announces the arrival of Satan who will undermine the `goodness' done by the priest. Sure enough that night the Baroness dies and the daughter has spread the false rumor that the priest forced her to throw her locket into the fire. Instantly the whole village community is against him and his position is made untenable. The scene is obviously a Biblical parable demonstrating the hopelessness of preaching goodness in a spiritually polluted environment. In a world which is bad, to be good is bad and that is how the priest is made to feel. There is also the question of how the Countess died. Did she commit suicide having reconciled herself with God (in which case the priest did in a sense cause her death), or did her daughter see the chance to kill her mother off to inherit the estate and get rid of her father's lover? Bresson offers no firm answer, but the result is the priest's realization that his work in the parish is impossible and that he is literally being driven to an early death.
Bresson's film is rife with obscure religious references - the angel Seraphita (Martine Lemaire) who seems to rescue him after he falls down into the mud one night, the deep conversation he has with the Baron's son Olivier (Jean Danet) who is a member of the foreign legion and describes how people can be religious without having to dress up and pontificate like priests, his congregation of one person who writes telling him he should go way, the children who tease him while learning about the Eucharist, Chantal's `half-confession' from the box but to a priest who stands before her rather than one who is hidden behind a grill. I am not Catholic and cannot fully connect with this film `from within'. However, the priest's sufferings and the negotiation of the 7 Stations is an extraordinary spiritual journey and is very moving as a consequence. We watch this simpleton priest go about his business in the manner of Prince Myshkin from Dostoyevsky's The Idiot or of the priest Father Nazario from Luis Buñuel's 1958 masterpiece Nazarín and feel nothing but profound pity for him and outrage at the horrors of the world he confronts. This is of course the world in which we live in as well and as the narrative is driven by a first person voice-over we feel completely for the character. Of all the characters in Bresson's films he is the only one to be accredited the same level of goodness and purity also allowed the donkey Balthazar and the saint Jeanne. The film may initially seem to be unbearably preachy and `starkly Catholic', but I urge viewers to watch it a couple of times. Give it some effort and you will be rewarded I'm sure. For me the film represents the spiritual essence of Bresson's world and is one of his most outstanding works.
This Optimum World Studio Canal release is outstanding. The digitalization is very successful. The images (aspect ratio 1.33:1 - 4:3) and mono sound are both ideally clear. Again one laments the complete absence of any extras. Of all Bresson's films this is the one in most need of a little explanation. Catholics may cotton on immediately to all the religious references, but for the rest of us it is rather hard to enter Bresson's world here. A little help from a sympathetic documentary or an informed commentary is surely essential for a film of this level of complexity. Never mind, the film is still an essential addition to your collection. The priest's emotional odyssey in a quest for spiritual grace is a journey I feel everyone, whatever their religious faith can relate to. Claude Laydu's performance is one which will stay with you forever once you have accessed Bresson's extraordinary world.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Bresson at his best,
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This review is from: Diary Of A Country Priest [DVD] [1951] (DVD)
In the end it just might be the best film by Bresson. You might not think it first few minutes into the film watching in disbelief Claude Laydu's anemic sickly performance and speech. One might only adjudge it so from our point in time. But a man's life was not always hard-paced with cell phones and spent dodging bullets from aliens. At a point in time there used to be such a thing as a soul and all kinds of worries that went with it. Gene splicing put an end to it but there is always such a thing as nostalgia. Modern age might have killed the soul but the yearning for it in humans cannot be erased. Having seen this film several times I may say it never failed to move me deeply.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing and moving,
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This review is from: Diary Of A Country Priest [DVD] [1951] (DVD)
Bressons ekes out of his sparse material a deeply moving story of faith and loneliness. It is a completely original film in that the performances come about before one's eyes but seem to have no celluoid permanence, and on next viewing will reveal new and different motivations and nuances. The sufferings and yearnings of the characters are real and powerful enough, but mainly as a result of Bresson's ability to get us, the audience, to project our feelings upon the drama, investing the minimal action with rapidity and purposefulness, and so propel it to its destination. The film is one of several that, to my mind, establishes this director among that handful of all-time greats.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Powerful Film That Requires Close Attention,
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DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, (1951). This black and white, classic 115 minute French film was adapted by acclaimed French director Robert Bresson, (LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE),from a well-known French novel by Georges Bernanos. It concerns the priest of the small French village of Ambricourt, in the vicinity of Lille .It appears to take place at an earlier time, perhaps in the 1930s, before the outbreak of World War II. The title priest, played by non-actor Claude Laydu, is a reserved and dedicated young man, new to the job, whose inability to mesh in social situations causes him to feel isolated from the very population he's supposed to be serving. His health problems add to his troubles, making him unable to carry out some of his obligations. As he grows sicker and ever more confused as to what his life really means, the priest feels himself further distanced from his village and from God. This cerebral film, Bresson's fourth, done in the minimalist style that Bresson was to make his own, largely with amateur actors, is often considered Bresson's first masterpiece: he both wrote the screenplay and directed. The DVD also features commentary by film historian Peter Cowie.
This film is powerful, but very, very slow. It requires close attention to detail in order to understand it. And it strongly reminds me of the Austrian Michael Haneke 's WHITE RIBBON, made more than 60 years later. Or, more logically, WHITE RIBBON is a reminder of this earlier French film. Both tell the story of sensitive souls crushed by the hostile, malicious inhabitants of a small isolated village. However, in Haneke's film, we are given no explanation for the malice of the village, and particularly its children; just the thought that growing up in a village like that was enough to create Nazis. Or perhaps it was just growing up speaking German. At any rate, in DIARY, we are given an explanation; I expect from the novel upon which it is based. Several characters remark that locals in that vicinity are all hobbled by having been born descended from generations of drunks; and that, furthermore, they were also probably malnourished as children. Mind you, we had particular difficulty in this house in benefiting from this film, as, unfortunately, we were not able to turn off the intrusive commentary by Cowie. Ultimately, the only thing we could think to do was to set the TV controls to mute, thereby missing out on the atmosphere of the spoken French, and just reading the English subtitles.
Both Bresson, and Bernanos were devoted Catholics. In fact, the movie's most famous line, "All is grace," according to the Internet Movie Database, is a quotation from Therese de Lisieux, a saint to whom novelist Georges Bernanos was deeply devoted. Regretfully, I doubt this film would appeal to a wide, general audience, or to anyone lacking a particular interest in it: an interest in French history, or Bresson, or French film, or religious and spiritual dramas, or faith and spirituality. If you have any doubts, I'd recommend just streaming it prior to any purchase.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Boring,
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I've read rather a lot about the work of Bresson over the years and this film in particular. My expectations couldn't have been much higher. How disappointing for me.
Now, please don't get me wrong; I understand and normally enjoy all art house fare as I generally much prefer foreign movies to anything Hollywood has ever produced BUT, contrary to what you might have read elsewhere, this film is NOT remotely moving or involving. I couldn't keep my eyes from the clock, waiting as I was patiently minute by minute for this slow crawl of a movie to come to its final dead end.
I appreciate Bresson was not in the business of entertaining cinema goers in the usual sense of the word and I've read that he himself couldn't make it through other peoples work for the past 4 decades of his life. You have to laugh at the bare faced conceit here. We're expected to sit through over-hyped dry material like this (which makes it point within the first 5 minutes and then proceeds to sledge hammer the same point home to the audience for the next 2 hours) while the director considers himself to be too lofty to have to sit through anyone elses purile rubbish. Why shouldn't he have been made to suffer like we now have to?
I so really wanted to like this film too. I never expected action or a great mysterious story but I was hoping for a sense of awe and inspiration from a beautifully constructed moving tale.
I never expected true "transcendence" as a number of critics described their own experiences after watching this film and I would have gladly settled for a whole lot less. However, I was still gravely disappointed and can't help but wonder if 99 out of 100 thinking people won't also be too.
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I had high hopes for this film, having read rave reviews. But I confess that I found it to be tripe dressed as art. What was the point of the whole thing? Who on earth would want a priest like "our hero" in their parish, devoid of warmth and personality and charisma, looking the whole of the time as if he was in need of a good laxative? As for the conversations, and in particular the long one with the Countess, I was at a complete loss. They might as well have been conversing in Mandarin! At least one of the advantages of a DVD is that one can switch them off-which I did without sitting through the whole of this monotonous dirge.
Quite definitely the next worst film I have seen after "Death in Venice".
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Looking southward toward Abu Dhabi and its seemingly concerted effort to create an array of unrelated yet relevant projects within the city's grid, has been catching our eye lately.
While it hasn't been smooth sailing for the UAE capital lately, it's undeniable that they are creating a diversified portfolio of activities for a global audience. This runs the gamut of museums that have yet to stay on construction schedule and weekend concert getaways down to almost incessant announcements of greener urban planning projects.
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Dubai's more than usual cautious approach of going for the tried and tested activities (DSF, exhibitions, etc) is understandable, given certain sectors within the city are still trying to pull themselves up from the 2008 economic bust—the latest news of which sees the government pull out of Dubai Group's $10-billion debt talks. So changing directions and looking for a longer-term identity in the global scene isn't going to be so simple.
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- SAV2013: The Great SharePoint App-venture 2013 - Our newest class for developers! Update your developer skillset and take advantage of the new app model in SharePoint 2013.
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- BBS2013: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint Designer in SharePoint 2013 - A 4-day class covering the customization opportunities available with no code or touch on the server using SharePoint Designer 2013.
- WC-BBS2013: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint Designer in SharePoint 2013 Webcast - Our 5-day webcast covering the customization opportunities available with no code or touch on the server using SharePoint Designer 2013.
For IT Pro / Administrators
- SSC2013: SharePoint 2013 Administration Survival Camp – Our 5-day administrator deep dive covering the IT Pro aspects of installing, configuring and managing SharePoint 2013.
- WC-SPA2013: Professional SharePoint 2013 for Administrators Webcast – Our 4-day webcast covering the IT Pro aspects of installing, configuring and managing SharePoint 2013.
For Business Users
- SEU2013: SharePoint 2013 for End Users - Our 4-day class for new SharePoint users who will be responsible for managing Site Collections.
- SBU2013: SharePoint 2013 for Business Users - A 2-day class just for new users of SharePoint 2013.
- SSA2013: SharePoint 2013 for Site Administrators - A 2-day class for users responsible for managing site collections.
For Web Designers
- SBC2013: SharePoint Brand Camp 2013 - Our 4-day class for folks who make SharePoint not look like SharePoint.
For Business Analysts
- SBI2013: Building BI Solutions using Excel and SharePoint 2013 - Our 3-day class for folks who use SharePoint to slice and dice the data.
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