Le Chevre is a religious allegory

I don't believe all that analysis of religious content. The only thing I saw was a wrecked cross outside a ruined mission in the jungle. The girl managed somehow to destroy the whole native village and their place of worship. Leaving them with nothing.

Compare with Matthew 5 (Jesus on the Mountain):
5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

People will pick just about everything to say "when will you heathen understand" ? It's called fanatics. As Churchill said, it's "people who won't change their minds and won't change the subject".
Veber never intended any of his movies to have any religious meaning. No matter what his beliefs, or — shudder ! — lack therof are, he kept to himself. But of course, God's hand must have guided his even if he did not understand THE TRUTH, yadda yadda ya…
Oh, and Pierre Richard did some very anti-religion (if not anti-faith) movies, like "The Toy". Once again, i don't know what his positions are, but his movie followed the seventies big, bad leftists (the non-dogmatic part — Cthulhu knows we hate those —, those who just illustrated their vision with a healthy sense of self-derision) European credo.
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*SPOILER*
What almost ruins this great movie is knowing that Depardieu's role wasz written for the great Lino Ventura. Hence I can see how M. Ventura would have played every single scene… Not that Depardieu's bad, but it's Depardieu channeling Ventura, if you get my drift…

There are no religiou symbols either in the film "The Day the Earth Stood still'
nevertheless that film is a very loose retelling of the gospel story. That is not the central issue but the use of allegory in that film and in this one gives a weight to the ethical undertones which exist in both films.
I am not joking.
Allegory is an extremely common coloration in fictional work. Its use often provides an additional value in illustrating issues more directly dealt with in the surface and obvious elements of the story line. I dont suggest for a moment that "Le Chevre" is a didactic Christian lesson film, just that the echoes of religious themes common in allegorical methods give a texture in the background which enhance the story in a charming way.
"Le Chevre" is no less an allegory than "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky which it resembles in interesting ways. The most common allegorical theme is Christian. This is because Western society is so tied to this theme historically. Other cultures often incorporate other themes and other themes occasionally enhance western writing and film.
The most typical allegorical symbols in such work are miraculous acts (improbable coincidences etc etc), a selfless
and innocent character central to the story. a person deeply influenced by these issues who is himself or herself ordinary. A very good example in recent film history of this type of film making is "The Year of Living Dangerously" . Which was another loose gospel reiteration. They are everywhere in film, for instance,the film "Eddie and the Cruisers" was boldly allegorical.
Im not Christian myself, but find fictional works which incorporate those elements as background structure or coloration as reflections of a more or less serious supplemental storytelling enhancement which is interesting.

Michael Kramer