Body and Soul
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Movie Reviews of Body and Soul
Movie Review: Really interesting, well done.
Summary: 5 Stars
This quite a good movie, interesting and complex. Think it was taken from a miniseries, or two part movie. But fun, mostly thanks to Kristin Scott Thomas, but all the supporting cast is good.Movie Review: Body & Soul
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a truly wonderful movie to watch and the DVD's were in good condition and the seller responded in good time when I had a question about the set.Movie Review: A Wonderful Story!
Summary: 5 Stars
I highly recommend this wonderful movie. Women and Men will enjoy this very human story.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.
Movie Review: a nun's story
Summary: 4 Stars
This mini-series features the then relatively new face of Kristin Scott Thomas,before she stole this critic's heart in "The English Patient",starring opposite Ralph Fiennes.In this quite long production -it runs for several hours-,she plays the part of a nun,living a very ordered and introspective life in a Welsh monastery,who is called on to come to the aid of her brother's wife,after the brother dies mysteriously ina car accident.Kristin Scott Thomas is given permission to spend a week with her sister-in-law,played by Amanda Redman,who is very pregnant and already the mother of 3 other children.Her husband's death has left the family in very parlous state and KST is almost overwhelmed by the mess her brother has left behind.Not only is his family suffering.The family spinning and textile business is on the verge of collapse.Sister and sister-in-law have to sort out their own lives besdies attending to the failing workplace and the vultures who are circling to pick up the pieces.
Kristin Scott Thomas is possibly England's best actress,in this person's opinion.This is a good tale,well acted.It's believable and it lifts your spirits.It's a great screenplay and the settings seem authentic.This is a very good purchase.Highly recommended.