Actors: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Black Robe
BLACK ROBE is a movie directed by Bruce Beresford in 1991. The picture earned ten nominations for the 1992 Australian Film Institute Awards.
The setting is the province of Quebec, 1632. Father Laforgue, a Jesuit, is sent by his congregation into the canadian wilderness in order to find out whether a jesuit outpost 1500 miles away in the Huron country is still functioning. Escorted by indians, the priest will discover a breath-taking country inhabited by the savage Iroquois tribes. Will he survive the harsh climate and the Indians' deadly arrows?
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Black Robe
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 20% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 17th century
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Plotlets:
- hunted by injuns
- surviving natural elements
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- religious figure
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- American Indian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- fight for survival
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
Forest?
Yes
Water?
Yes
Water:
- river
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- sex with icepick
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- biohazard/virus
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
