"Rossellini's Flowers of St. Francis (1950) is daunting because of its simplicity and compassion and heart." Martin Scorsese
"The Flowers of St. Francis—or, Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester), to give it its full title in Italian—is a delicate, fascinating hybrid, a film that is self-consciously, almost militantly, naive, and, as such, something of an anomaly in Rossellini’s body of work." Peter Brunette
Italian (English subtitles).
"The Flowers of St. Francis—or, Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester), to give it its full title in Italian—is a delicate, fascinating hybrid, a film that is self-consciously, almost militantly, naive, and, as such, something of an anomaly in Rossellini’s body of work." Peter Brunette
Italian (English subtitles).
