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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 8:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's the story of St. Therese of Lisieux. She became a nun at age 15. Died of tuberculosis at 24. She said "My heaven is to do good on earth"(paraphrase)

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 11:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I didn't realize they made a movie about her. Being a young Catholic girl, we all admired her. I think most of us took our confirmation name from her. I know I did. I will have to see this.

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 7:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is this movie playing all over or is it in limited release? I haven't seen anything about it. I was named for her and have idolized her all my life.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 8:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't think so Tess. I haven't heard of it either,and I am a big movie fan.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 9:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I looked on Ebert's site. He reviewed a movie called 'Therese' in 1987, I think. It sounds like the same movie.

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 12:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well for pity sake! KL, you've gotta tell someone like me who doesn't get out to the movies much whether you're renting, buying or seeing something at the theatre for the first time.

Thanks, OG. Still want to see it. Hmmmmm.

Ketchuplover
Member

08-30-2000

Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 5:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's only being shown in my city (in WI). I recommend u google it :-)

Alegria
Member

07-05-2002

Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 6:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Review of the new Therese movie...

http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=Therese%20%28Movie%29&title2=Therese%20%28Movie%29&reviewer=Ned%20Martel&pdate=20041001&v_id=314826

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 8:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So there is a new one? ack. Google. good plan, KL. Didn't think of that.

Thanks, Alegria.

Alegria
Member

07-05-2002

Monday, October 11, 2004 - 1:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It just occurred to me that link might not work because of the login requirements at the NYT. Here is the review...

October 1, 2004
FILM IN REVIEW; 'Thérèse'
By NED MARTEL


Directed by Leonardo Defilippis
Not rated, 105 minutes

If the Roman Catholic faith had an Anne Frank figure, beloved for musings published after her death, it would have to be St. Theresa of Lisieux. Her memoir preached her ''little way'' of using self-abnegation to see the Lord's work in small tasks.


She was born in 1873 to a well-to-do French family. At 4, she suffered the death of her mother, and then the departure of her elder sister, a substitute mother of sorts, who joined a Carmelite convent. In ''Thérèse,'' a florid biopic about the saint, the bereaved girl begs to join the convent at 15 and then scribbles down her self-doubts in the cloister's confines.

According to its press materials, the film, which opens today nationwide, was financed by ''countless individuals who desire to share the message of St. Thérèse.'' But artistry is not the inevitable outcome, and fluffy costumes and French location shoots are the only production elements that don't seem wholly amateurish.

The ethereal young girl gathers wildflowers and stares at the sky and wakes up with nighttime anxieties. Thérèse (Lindsay Younce) confesses her ''terrible sins'' to her devout widower dad, including the time she took a big hunk of cake after dinner. ''Jesus forgives you,'' says Dad. ''I think he may even be laughing at you a little bit.''

Inside the convent, there are some nasty incidents, as when Sister Augustine sees a cobweb in a corner and chides Thérèse for bourgeois laxness. As the Mother Superior wonders how to solve a problem like Thérèse, the teenager answers hostility with further asceticism, and you get an insight about how the delicate Carmelite order is preserved. The story ends with martyrdom.

St. Theresa expressed her soul and described her days with an intimacy that makes her a thoroughly modern Catholic believer. The film in her honor can't do what her simple words have already achieved. NED MARTEL



Kimmo
Member

05-02-2003

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here are user comments about the movie on IMDB...

IMDB User Comments

A lot of the comments said the 1986 movie was better.