Body and Soul
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Actor: Helena McCarthy, John Lambert (II), Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Allen, Renny KrupinskiBrand: QUT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 300 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: QD3722
Studio: Questar
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- As seen on Masterpiece Theatre.Starring Academy Award Nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gosford Park, The Horse Whisperer).Anna Gibson (Kristin Scott Thomas), age thirty-four, has been shut away in a convent in the Welsh hills for sixteen years. When her brother dies tragically, she is forced to leave her seclusion to help her pregnant sister-in-law an
Movie Reviews of Body and Soul
Movie Review: Body & Soul = Heart & Soul
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this on Masterpiece Theatre sometime in the mid 90's. I enjoyed it. What really hit home with me was when Sister Gabriel/Anna realizes that true suffering is out in the common place world, not in a convent. Life in the convent is depicted in this series as bleak, silent, cold, denial of food, hard work and lots of prayer.
When Anna first goes to see her widowed sister in law, she is shocked by the billboards (ie: an ad for condoms) and life in general outside of the convent. Very gradually she comes to realize that the vows she made 16 years earlier is not what she wants. The pain and anger her sister in law feels for both Anna (running away to the convent to avoid life) and her dead husband (he commits suicide by driving his car off the road - after mailing his very expensive watch and a few other things to his wife) leaving her with several children and one on the way is very powerful.
When Sister Gabriel/Anna returns to the convent after helping her sister in law with the new baby and children, there is much hostility towards her. One of the Sisters beomes deathly ill, Sister Gabriel is accused of bringing back disease from the outside world.
Following all of the changes from total seclusion to Anna taking her dead parents business over, making it profitable, and falling in love is very subtle. In the end Anna realizes that the decision to leave the Convent and renounce her vows is the correct thing for her to do. Anna ends up saving jobs at her parents near bankrupt yarn factory (her brother was not a good business man) by turning it around (with the help of Mother Superiors' accounting abilites) and helps with her sister in law and children. Thus finding life to be much more rewarding outside of the convent.
I won't say much about her experience falling in love, buy this DVD and find out for yourself.
As usual, this is a top notch British production.
Summary of Body and Soul
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 12/11/07
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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