Saint Rita
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Movie Reviews of Saint Rita
Movie Review: Great Movie!
Summary: 4 Stars
It increased my devotion & love for St. Rita. Long movie, but very good. She was so humble!
Everybody should watch this movie! I want to see more movies like that!
Movie Review: very long movie-3hrs 20 min-very good though-too long
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed the movie-you can tell its foreign made-many scenes would have been cut out as not needed-if American made. It was good,though way too long. It has 2 parts.Movie Review: Very secularized "saint" Rita, in my opinion
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a traditional Catholic, and I have small children in my family so it's important that the Saint movies are generally clean, show the Church in a good light, and have good examples they can copy. Even though this movie doesn't really stray too much out of those bounds, I still took issue with it.
The biggest thing that annoyed me is that Saint Rita just didn't SEEM like a Saint. She just seemed like a normal person living a hard life that rose above it as best she could. Now granted, that's what a Saint is, but I just couldn't get beyond Saint Rita's portrayal. If you watch this movie and see her life, there is nothing that would show her to be a Saint in it, nothing that would raise her above millions of others who have done reasonably well amidst hard circumstances. One reviewer mentioned that it wasn't historical and that it seemed like a Chick Flick. I couldn't agree more. I LOVE Saint movies, but this one just didn't feel like a Saint movie, it felt like a secular take on a Saint Rita, trying to bring her to the normal person's "level" rather than having us try to rise to HER level.
Secondly, there were some things I did not care for: Saint Rita and her new husband are showed pretty heavily kissing and making out for a few brief moments, where they fall on the bed and the camera moves away. Not a big deal especially since they are married, but I didn't want my little children to see this, let alone me! We watch very clean movies only and I don't think it's appropriate for a movie about a Saint to be sexually charged, no matter how mild it is. Also, the whole "family" thing was out of an Italian gangster movie, it's done horribly, not accurate to the times, and it's an obvious copy of the mafia. It's just ridiculous. Those are two examples of the "artists" taking artistic leeway in this film, and it in my opinion lowers it. There's nothing there for my 5 year old daughter to emulate in this Saint, nothing that I as a Catholic mother can rise to with this Saint. It's really just secularizing a Saint's life to make it more friendly to the general populace, and in my opinion I think they went wayyyy too far.
Movie Review: Heroic Saint; Lazy Production
Summary: 2 Stars
St. Rita was truly heroic (as are all saints). This show plays out as a "good story," perhaps; I nearly stopped looking at it within an hour because of what I perceived as "acting with a big 'A'" and historical inaccuracies.
St. Rita married her husband when she was 12 years old. We are shown someone who is in her 20s, perhaps.
The language of the Catholic Church is Latin. In St. Rita's time, most of those in the secular life (if not all) neither read nor spoke Latin. It was not until the heretic Martin Luther undertook to publish the Bible in the vernacular (removing or rewording portions of it in the process) that the Bible was available in the language of the people. Never mind all that: we have a scene of St. Rita reading to her sons from Scripture. Highly unlikely that she would be fluent in Latin.
People in those times did not have forks as we know them--certainly not made of stainless steel.
In fine, I doubt that anyone did the research needed to depict the Middle Ages and way of life as true to life as could have been done.
Lack of research aside, St. Rita was a truly holy woman, who willingly suffered for our Jesus--even to the point of preferring that her sons die rather than fall into sin. She persisted in pursuing her vocation as a religious: God was calling, and she was determined to answer. God rewarded her by permitting her to share in suffering His wounds.
Pray to her, and if you purchase this show, do so with discernment.
Movie Review: Not a saint's life, but a fantasy of one
Summary: 2 Stars
As a homage to one of the most beloved saints of the Augustinian order, this is a truly compelling and well-intentioned film. However, viewers who are new to Rita's story and those whose lives have been blessed by her favor should explore the information available at the National Shrine of Saint Rita in Philadelphia. Here, one can learn of latter-day research that not only rehabilitates the character of her husband but also makes a convincing case for her implausibly "miraculous" entry into the convent, to say nothing of its various depictions of her astonishing devotion to Christ's passion. Indeed, Rita's receipt of the stigmata from the crown of thorns--which takes up mere moments in the film--was the indisputable center of her many years in the convent and the origin of her progress to deserved sainthood. Instead of the wildly inflated and romantic tale offered by the film, Rita's real story is one marked by austerity, Good Suffering, and holy mystery.