great ,but I hate it when I cannot see the subtitles because he got a white shirt on or something else that matches the subtitles cant soomeone redo this important movie's translation please

It's reasonable to just show a moment or two of the movie, but does it have to be the opening credits, which are vacant of any substance? How about something that shows off the movie. They do it on the late night circuit, why can't Hulu spare a salary for at least one curator?Silly.

Overall good visual design, looks like a painting in some frames, which would be fine, for a painting. Choreography is cumbersome, and even the talent seems to be uncomfortable with the stately pace. This could have been used for dramatic effect, but after an hour or so it becomes tedious.Successfully illustrates some of the philosophical and theological ideas of Pascal. Moves slowly. Lots of expository dialogue, and visual examples (by the genuinely animated Pierre Arditi), are unfortunately not expounded upon in the plot. The film focuses insularly on Pascal's life, which, while somberly plagued by poor health and depression, does not make for gripping narrative.The supporting cast are myriad, and generally interchangeable. With a few exceptions (the father, and one scholar), there are no characters which are able to generate sufficient conflict. No one is written strongly enough to play on the same level, and conflict flags as a result.If the film had managed to focus on major political events rather than narrate them (show don't tell), there might have been some applicability to all the philosophy being bandied about. As it stands, it comes off as pretentious.

I thought that Blaise Pascal was frankly boring. The film was almost entirely smug dialog (subtitles) about Pascal's well-known discoveries and inventions. The characters did not seem well developed or interesting, and I thought the writing was extraordinarily bad. The only redeeming feature was a few minutes of witch trials which were spoiled by Pascal's ludicrous dialog about reconciling rationalism and religion. Overall, I thought the movie was bad enough to be hard to watch; on the up side, the rest of the Criterion films I've seen have been good to great. This one was a real stinker.