A genuinely weird, meandering movie, perfect in tone for Flannery O'Connor, but then I never much cared for O'Connor's work. Blasphemy for some, maybe, but a devout Catholic exploring the meaning of God in people's lives is not exactly my idea of a good time.
Nearly forty years before this movie was made, John Huston made one of my favorite films ever, The Maltese Falcon. The fact that this film is so different, and so seemingly contemporary to films made around the same time, demonstrates his ability - so rare in his generation of filmmakers - to transform his vision and evolve with the times. Wise Blood is no doubt an expertly made adaptation, but its an adaptation of a book I'll never read.
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