- Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger
- Directors: Fred Zinnemann
- Writers: Kathryn Hulme, Robert Anderson
- Producers: Fred Zinnemann, Henry Blanke
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: 1 Nov 1999
- Run Time: 149 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CNR2
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,242 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This wonderful movie evokes a great sense of time before WWII when the convent was a desirable destination for many young women in Catholic Europe. Hepburn was never lovelier or better and acts more with her eyes than many modern 'stars' can do with their entire bodies.
The focus of the film is the eternal conflict between self and duty. It starts as Hepburn leaves the sheltered home of her Father where she has been substitute mother since her Mother's death, choosing the Church over home responsibilities to her Father's chagrin. It continues through the conflict of personal choice versus the teachings of the Church and hinges around a scene where she is asked to flunk an exam to show devotion to the Church.
The central portion moves to Africa and injects sensuality in spades and Peter Finch glowers and exudes sex appeal enough to melt any wimple!! Sister Luke is not so much conflicted by his presence as ripped apart. Conflict again between old and new religions ends in tragedy. The later phase is at the beginning of the war where obedience to the Church clashes full pelt with her feelings of nationalism and family loyalty. Is the ending inevitable?
The photography in this film is very good, almost worthy of Powell and Pressburger, especially in the scenes where the novices become nuns. The concept of the Church and being a nun may not speak as loudly to us in this time, but the theme of conflict, personal will versus the good of others, is eternal. A great Sunday afternoon film and a classic of that period.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This magnificent film of 1957 still shines in all its luminosity after 50 years. It reminds us of the heights to which Hollywood could rise in the old studio system, which invested its resources on quality: the actors, the director, the music, the costumes, and the splendid genuine locations, from the canals and bridges of Bruges and Antwerp to the sweeping expanse of the Congo river (The scenes at the leper colony, among many others, are fascinating.). "The Nun's Story" allows us to glimpse a slice of history of the 1930s, as it unfolds on two continents. It gives us a look back into a society, both sacred and secular, that World War II was to change irrevocably.
The superb performances of Audrey Hepburn, Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans, Mildred Natwick, and Peter Finch speak for themselves, and it would be superfluous of me to comment on them further.
I merely wonder how many of the hundreds of films now churned out in Hollywood every year (the millions of dollars spent making them; their celebrity actors; their special effects) will still shine as brightly as "The Nun's Story" 50 years from now?
Relatively few, I think!
The superb performances of Audrey Hepburn, Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans, Mildred Natwick, and Peter Finch speak for themselves, and it would be superfluous of me to comment on them further.
I merely wonder how many of the hundreds of films now churned out in Hollywood every year (the millions of dollars spent making them; their celebrity actors; their special effects) will still shine as brightly as "The Nun's Story" 50 years from now?
Relatively few, I think!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
What a meditative movie! You could spend every night watching it. Audrey is wonderful, especially in the second part, when she takes more consciousness of her role and plays it with more inspiration. It will catch your soul, a must- see!
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The Nun's Story
This movie is based on the factually best-selling novel (set in the late 1930s) by catholic author Kathryn C. Hulme. Read more
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This has to be one of my favorite Audrey Hepburn movies of all time.
Unlike alot of her other movies this does not rely on her clothes or looks to generate audience... Read more
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