![]() As the other reviewer noted, the more faithful among us will find it moving. She keeps a diary and it is this which becomes the great testament of her faith after her death. Therese, the youngest, goes into her vocation post-puberty. The mother dies and one by one, the girls go into religious vocations. The family is close knit, visits the nunnery regularly, dresses and eats well but their lives are centered around the church. The message therefrom is one of overriding faith. ![]() ![]() Having said that, I found the film to be very strange there are certainly two ways you can take it: one, you can be moved by the demonstrations of faith and piety which prompts a whole family of 4 middle class young women of country gentry stock to become religious. As cinema, it's "amateur night at the movies," but as a practicing Roman Catholic, it's easy to overlook the gaps, shortcomings and fumblings in light of its subject. It's hard to be objective about this film. ![]()
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