Blaise Pascal (1972) by Roberto Rossellini
Sunday, December 19, 1982, 8:00 pm
Blaise Pascal (1972) by Robert Rossellini, 135 min., color
Blaise Pascal (1972) by Robert Rossellini, 135 min., color.
During the last years of his life, Rossellini (Open City, etc.) made several historical dramas for television, Each based on the life of a significant figure of the past (Socrates, Louis XIV, etc.). …Pascal Is one of the most dramatically moving and richly detailed of the series (17th century French life is minutely recreated). Of the film Rossellini said: “Pascal, who wears himself out in scientific research and consumes himself in the practice of Christian perfection, expresses better than anyone else two essential aspects of his century: scientific anxiety and religious piety.”