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Director:
Jean Delannoy
Writers:
Robert Arnaut (writer)
Jean Delannoy (writer)
Release Date:
24 March 1989 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
In 1857, an unemployed miller moves his family into grim lodgings; his wife takes in laundry. In February of 1858... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
The second song of Bernadette. more (4 total)

Cast

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Sydney Penny ... Bernadette Soubirous
Jean-Marc Bory ... Le curé Peyramale / Father Peyramale
Jean-Marie Bernicat ... M. Pailhasson
Philippe Brigaud ... Le docteur Balencie
Claude Buchwald ... Tante Bernarde
Bernard Cazassus ... Le cafetier Duran
Alain Christie ... Le garde-champêtre Callet (as O Alain Christie)
François Dalou ... Le commissionnaire Jacomet
Frank David ... Le receveur d'Estrade (as Franck David)
Roland Lesaffre ... François Soubirous
Michèle Simonnet ... Louise Soubirous
Jean Davy ... Mgr Laurence Bernard
Bernard Dhéran ... Docteur Dozous / Doctor Dozous
Arlette Didier ... Mme Milhet
Michel Duchaussoy ... Napoléon III
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Runtime:
119 min
Country:
Switzerland | France | Luxembourg
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
USA:PG | Iceland:L
Filming Locations:
Senlis, Oise, France
Company:
Bernadette Associates International more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When it was released it replaced The Song of Bernadette (1943) in a theater in Lourdes, in which the latter had been shown exclusively for decades. more
Movie Connections:
Version of Aquella joven de blanco (1965) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
The second song of Bernadette., 28 December 2004
6/10
Author: dbdumonteil

Critically speaking ,this new version of Bernadette Soubirous' s life was greeted with a poor reception in its native France.Coming just after critically-acclaimed Alain Cavalier's "Therese" (de Lisieux) ,the movie got unanimous thumb downs.And yet what can you expect from Jean Delannoy ,Jean Luc Godard's favorite bete noire?This movie seems to have been made a long time ago.Delannoy,however, has always had spiritual concerns (Dieu a besoin des hommes,la symphonie pastorale)and I'm not sure that,at almost 90,he was trying to capitalize on Cavalier's success.

"Bernadette" did not deserve such a harshness.As Delannoy says in the cast and credits ,Bernadette was simplicity itself and that's what we tried to do here.A naive uneducated girl ,her answers to the shrinks ,the priests and the bourgeois were not unlike those of Joan of Arc during her trial:simple but witty.And I dig the last lines (A nun) -C'est ça Bernadette? (the Saint) -Oui,c'est ça!

Jean Delannoy was to continue in the pious vein with "Marie de Nazareth" but that last effort lacks even the humor we find in "Bernadette" and it was a disappointment.

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