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The Flowers of St. Francis

A Movie for Today... And All Time

1950 · 1h 27m · NOT RATED Drama, History
Directed by Roberto Rossellini

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In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.

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Thanks to the simplicity of its filming and the sympathetic musical score Renzo Rossellini has affixed, it sends one forth from the theatre feling kindlier towards his fellow man.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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Rossellini's buoyant 1950 masterpiece is a glorious hallucination of perfect harmony between man and nature.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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