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This film's evocative convent and vows depictions
publicado por genplant29STAFFMOD el 25 de marzo de 2017 a las 15:45
I really go for roughly the first half of The Nun's Story (the second half of the film goes into at times overly soapy territory) as my eldest sister was a real-life nun of starting in that era (I believe also taking her vows in right about 1959, though she was a postulant, or whatever the right precise term, since the mid 1950s), I wasn't yet born, so myself hadn't been around to attend or witness her ceremonies, or to personally recall much from her nun or convent experience of the first half or more of the 1960s. So I find the film and the convent and novitiate depiction, and Miss Hepburn's lovely portrayal of the nun in question, to be really interesting, fascinating, appealing, and a very nice time capsule.
Contestado por AusFem
el 27 de marzo de 2017 a las 05:53
Just watched this yesterday. I think it's probably Audrey Hepburn's greatest performance. You could see the struggle she was having just through her eyes.
I really liked Peter Finch too. The gruff exterior but a heart of gold.
Although the nuns in this movie portray nothing like the nuns I had in primary school. They were cruel women, whom I'm pretty sure hated kids.
Contestado por genplant29
el 27 de marzo de 2017 a las 06:26
I've also heard some others say they had the harsh and quick-to-punish "mean" nuns. My closest-in-age brother and I didn't go to Catholic school, but our eldest siblings did, during some of their school years, and overall they liked - or at least they weren't left with unfavourable memories of - their nun teachers. Their agreeable to neutral experiences perhaps were because they were at private boarding schools, that may have had a lower ratio of students per nun or something.
By the way, Agnes of God (1985) is another "nun" movie I really like. There's also the excellent 1923 Silent The White Sister starring Lillian Gish.
Contestado por Fergoose
el 19 de agosto de 2022 a las 15:42
I hate to say I thought this was majorly flawed. I gave it 80 mins then skipped to the inevitable ending.
Audrey's character is parachuted into joining the nuns at the outset despite a seemingly reluctant father. There is no background to her character whatsoever. No mother, no influences that may have awakened or inspired her spiritually. No indication she was in any way a devoted Catholic. No key moments in her formative years, no indication of her sexual thoughts (if any) or of her inclination to solitude or social intercourse. There wasnt even much in the way of intrigue or power balance within the incredibly hierarchical organisation. Not much sign of relations between the different tiers of nuns and prospects.
It was just the journey of a random, blank canvas of a person into a nunnery and it left me stone cold.
4/10
Contestado por bratface
el 19 de agosto de 2022 a las 21:38
This was one of the many 'nun' movies from the 50s & early 60s that made me want to be a nun(when I was 10). But by the time I was 11, my vocation had changed to a burlesque stripper! I was a strange child.