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Canticle of All Creatures

International Arthouse • 20m

Directed by Miguel Gomes | 21 mins | 2006
This playful but sincere tribute to St. Francis takes the form of a cinematic triptych. From the present day, in which a guitar-wielding bard ambles through the historic center of Assisi, Gomes jumps back 800 years, reviving the saint himself in a lusciously kitsch dramatization. The final section, in which children pipe a song of devotion over footage of the wild animals that Francis so loved, evokes a realm outside of time.

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