The Washington Post, November 8th, 1991
A fiercely realistic drama of frontier Quebec, "Black Robe" mucks about where the new age western "Dances With Wolves" dared not put its pretty paw. In this portrait of 17th-century Canada, there is nothing much to indicate the presence of 20th-century filmmakers - no revisionist apologies, no polite courtships, no clean clothes, no cute animals. It's as raw as attending to one's toilette off the side of a canoe (this actually happens). Bruce Beresford directs from Brian Moore's adaptation of his own novel, the saga of a Jesuit missionary's attempt to bring Christianity to the natives of New F...
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