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Black Robe (DVD, 2001) 
Black Robe (DVD, 2001)

 
Black Robe (DVD, 2001)

Leading Role: Lothaire Bluteau
Director: Bruce Beresford
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Jul 2001
Format: DVD
UPC: 027616864352
Product ID: EPID3374722
Description: Director Bruce Beresford's abiding fascination with the clash of cultures is apparent in this adaptation of Brian Moore's novel of a Jesuit missionary who leaves France in 1634 to bring the word of Jesus to the Huron tribe of rugged nort...
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Movie Description
Director Bruce Beresford's abiding fascination with the clash of cultures is apparent in this adaptation of Brian Moore's novel of a Jesuit missionary who leaves France in 1634 to bring the word of Jesus to the Huron tribe of rugged northern Quebec. The film, which stars Lothaire Bluteau as LaForgue, casts aside the revisionist notion of the Native American as an enlightened being, superior to Caucasian interlopers, depicting the Huron world as one of ugliness and harshness. The missionary's arrogance blinds him to the Indians' preference for their own religious rituals over the faith he is attempting to thrust upon them. Yet, in his new proximity to nature and exposure to primitive mores that shock him, the priest begins to feel the bonds of his asceticism and question his faith. Finally, after being captured and tortured by a party of Iroquois, he begins to evince the compassion with which the conversion of the Hurons becomes possible. The tragic ramifications of this process are only revealed many years later. Bluteau is excellent in this bleak film, which includes some of the most meticulously researched representations of Native American life ever put on film.

Credits
Cast:August Schellenberg, Sandrine Holt

Details
Sound:Stereo Sound, Surround Sound

Notes
DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
   Dolby Surround - English
Additional Release Material:
   Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical, Theatrical release: November 1991.

BLACK ROBE was an opening night selection at the 1991 Toronto Festival of Festivals.

Shot in Lac St. Jean, Saguenay Region, and St. Felix d'Otis, Quebec, Canada; and Rouen, France.

The Native North American dialogue is translated into English subtitles.

Estimated budget: $15 million (Australian dollars).

Editorial Reviews
"...[A] raw and jolting adventure..."
Travers

"...This is one magnificent movie, one whose relatively untrod locations really do convince us that we're canoe-paddling in another century..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (11/04/1991)

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