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  • Dialogue des Carmélites, a Poulenc opera based on a film scenario by Georges Bernanos, is perhaps the most well-known treatment.

    27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009

  • Dialogue des Carmélites, a Poulenc opera based on a film scenario by Georges Bernanos, is perhaps the most well-known treatment.

    The Holy Martyrs of Compiegne John 2009

  • It was with "Journal d'un curé de campagne" "Diary of a Country Priest" 1951, his heart-rending adaptation of a Georges Bernanos novel, that Bresson established his minimalist style.

    Salvation at the Forum Kristin M. Jones 2012

  • The script was taken from a novel by Georges Bernanos, and taken textually; both the dialogue and passages from the priest's diary come unchanged from the pages of the book.

    'Of Gods': Divine Beauty, Terror, Faith Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Bresson next turned to "Mouchette" 1967, his sorrowful, unsentimental masterpiece about a neglected teenager, bookended by music by Monteverdi and based, like "Diary of a Country Priest," on a Bernanos novel.

    Salvation at the Forum Kristin M. Jones 2012

  • In France of that era numerous very fine authors fell out of favour --- Malraux, Mauriac, Celine, Bernanos, Montherlant.

    Commonplace: Henry de Montherlant as maverick 2008

  • It is a religious book in the same way as Bernanos' M.

    Plot and thought 2010

  • Jeff: You and Anne are performing a remarkable service for readers and writers by publishing the entire text with a new translation, no less of The Other Side of the Mountain by Bernanos.

    Books That Make Me Happy 2010

  • "Outside of the more obvious source influences of Georges Bernanos, Fyodor Dostoevsky or Leo Tolstoy, the work of Flannery O'Connor may provide the nearest analogical relation yet," suggests Guy Crucianelli.

    GreenCine Daily: Senses of Cinema. 43. 2007

  • The Diary of a Country Priest, by Georges Bernanos, an idealistic young Catholic priest in an isolated French village keeps a diary describing the unheroic suffering and the petty internal conflicts of his parish.

    flou - French Word-A-Day 2007

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