My first Maurice Pialat film and it baffled and awed me. The narrative is very streamlined, cut down to plot points one after another, and yet it retained an effect. With long scenes that feel like they drift further than the length the script originally intended, the film manages to convey its religious core perfectly, even if it is 'slight', and also freaked me out with its unsettling mood at points. Its a divisive film but it worked perfectly.

A fascinatingly strange movie. Depardieu doesn't even look the part of a priest, much less an Agent Of God (yes, it's *that* kind of movie), lending the entire film a delicious irony. Not all of it works -- maybe I'm just too spoiled by high-budget Hollywood films, but it seems like it's just too cheap for its ambitions -- but it's a real contribution to the medium that I'm glad I saw