Entertaining Angels
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Movie Reviews of Entertaining Angels
Movie Review: Inspirational
Summary: 5 Stars
What a beautiful and true story. At the beginning, you wonder if you're going to like her character, in the end, you love her. I love this movie.Movie Review: well done
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent historical story and the message is true today as it was when the story of her life was unfolding.Movie Review: a good introduction to Dorothy Day
Summary: 4 Stars
I had been trying to explain Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement to my wife, but I was failing miserably. I had seen there was a new documentary out on her and asked my priest if he'd seen it- he hadn't, but wrote down the name. He did suggest that we try and find a copy of this film as a fine introduction to Dorothy Day.
He was right.
If you're looking for an in depth study of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, you won't find that here. You start with her in her early twenties, and leave off with her at about age 40, with a small scene that caps the beginning and close of the movie with her in her mid seventies. The movie focuses on her conversion experience, from a bohemian radical who smokes and drinks and sleeps with men (and they do mention the abortion) to a devoted christian radical, all the while showing how her commitment to justice and help for the poor.
The movie covers a great deal of ground, and does a capable job. I think I was only dissapointed because I know as much as I do about Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day (case in point- I was irrationally dissapointed that there was no discussion of Distributism in the film and talk of the farms the community started) - if you have someone that is unfamiliar with these two, get this movie.
Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day are America's St Francis and St Clare, and the more people know of them, the better.
Movie Review: A Change of Heart
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this film when it was originally released. At the time, I was not as impressed with it as I had been with "Romero" another film produced? by the late Paulist Father Bud Kaiser. I reluctantly used this movie in a recent adult religious education series in our parish entitled "American Catholics", after not finding a filmed interview with Dorothy Day I had seen years before. The participants in the evening were taken with the story, especially as they are reading Day's "The Long Loneliness" as part of the series. After viewing the film for the first time in ten? or more years, I found my opinion had mellowed. It presents a portrait of Dorothy Day which is compelling, entertaining and quite useful as a means to introduce contemporary Catholics to this most fascinating and perhaps most influential American Catholic in the last 100 years.
While not a blockbuster hollywood extravaganza, by comparison it certainly falls into the top notch "tv movie" genre and well worth a viewing.
Movie Review: Great Teaching Tool
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been using this video for years in the context of morality and social justice religious studies courses. The movie is a good representation of Dorothy Day's life though it gets rather melodramatic at the end. It does a great job illustratiing the transformation that happens in Dorothy's life and how she and Peter Maurin develop the Catholic Worker together. Another critique would be that Maruin's role in the process is minimized but it is, after all, a movie about Day, not Maurin who generally gets less credit than Day. The movie certainly opens up a lot of discussion about faith, transformation and our call to social justice.