Body and Soul

Body and Soul
by Moira Armstrong

Body and Soul
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Actor: Helena McCarthy, John Lambert (II), Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Allen, Renny Krupinski
Director: Moira Armstrong
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 300 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Questar

Movie Reviews of Body and Soul

Movie Review: The ending is a disappointment
Summary: 4 Stars

I read all the current reviews after I saw the mini-series, because I was searching for one that might explain the ending. I have a 2 disc set (marketed may I say in the most difficult packaging I have ever encountered for a DVD. My nails broke and fingers ached after struggling with the release buttons to free the discs, but I digress). I was talking about the series' ending. And that is the point, what is the ending? It leaves us unfulfilled and wondering: and then? What happens next? Clearly, she chooses the world she wants, but what happens to the two men who are so involved in her life? What about her sister-in-law's life? What about the other characters who are integrated into the plot? Not one has a finality except for the character who is the cause of all problems, and a dead nun. (Trying here not to give anything important away.) Did she have regrets later? Did she have the children she so desperately desired? I honestly thought I must have missed an epsiode or that there was a missing disc. As a result, the series feels disappointing and anti-climatic It is cowardly of a director not to have gone farther with the plot. Had I wished to invent my opwn ending, I would have written the screnplay myself!

The cast was excellent, the screenplay interesting, though the storyline about a nun leaving a convent is not unique. Other reviewers have noted the issue of faith and the critical reception she met dressed as a nun in the outside world. For some that will be toubling.

Having watched all the epsiodes I am disappointed that the resolution was so weak.

Summary of Body and Soul

Academy Award-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, Four Weddings and a Funeral) shines in one of her earliest starring roles in this acclaimed miniseries based on Marcelle Bernstein's powerful novel. After sixteen years of poverty, chastity, and silent obedience in a secluded convent in Wales, Anna Gibson is beginning to doubt her vocation. When her brother dies tragically, Anna is forced to take charge of his young family, including his pregnant wife, Lynn, and her two sons, and the bankrupt textile mill he has left behind in the north of England. Anna finds herself in an alien and hostile modern world. For the first time in her life, she is confronted by her own identity as a woman, and she is forced to choose between two conflicting worlds. As seen on Masterpiece Theatre.

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