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This made for television film chronicles the illustrious life of French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650)... (Full plot summary below)

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This made for television film chronicles the illustrious life of French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650)

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User Review - 8/10 by John AI'm loving Rossellini's brilliant "anti-cinema" cheapo made-for-TV history textbooks. Similarly to the Age of the Medici (which Rossellini shot in English for PBS, only to have PBS refuse to show it), he shot this one in French for French TV, who then refused to show it. I'm hardly ever distracted by subtitles, but this film's almost continuous stream-of-monologueness really forced me to choose between the image and the text, which is a shame because Rossellini is practicing a cinematic minimalism here that is so often wrongly attributed to Bresson. To miss the most subtle of movements can be to miss the entire point of the scene. I wish it were dubbed into English.
User Review - 6/10 by Jonathan MThis kind of history lesson bio of Descartes and the development of his "Discourse on Method," is interesting for what it is, but it is so dialogue heavy that I wonder why it really needs to be a movie at all.
User Review - 6/10 by Marco MMore edifying and entertaining than initially expected.

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