The Nun's Story

branie

Ever see this Audrey Hepburn film about a nun struggling with her vows? I have, and it's very good

Onesimus

Never watched it, but wife says the film shows Catholicism in a bad light. At least that is what she thinks.

Benny_Cake

I've never seen it, but during my mother's schooldays her class were all marched to the cinema to watch it, and given that this was the west of Ireland in the early 60s I'd doubt it was particularly anti-Catholic. I didn't know Audrey Hepburn was in it though, now I'll have to watch it!

noel farrell

i thought it was hogwash 50 years ago it has hardly improved with age.

Manach

I watched it. Did not make any impact. More a fan of "My fair Lady" to be honest.

WildRosie

I love this film! Have it on VHS. It made me want to be a nun when I was younger, in between wanting to be a lawyer and an actress

Peregrinus

The film is an adaptation of a best-selling novel of the same name by Katherine Hulme, and the novel in turn is a fictionalisation of the experiences of a Belgian woman, Marie-Louise Habets, who had been a missionary sister in the Congo in the 1930s, became involved with the Belgian Resistance in occupied Belgium, and left her congregation in 1944.

In 1945, while working as a nurse with the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, she met Hulme, and American who was also working for the UNRRA. The two became close, and round about 1950 Habets obtained a visa to go to the US, with Hulme as her sponsor. They lived together as a couple until Hulme died around 1980. Habets died in 1986.

brian_t

It's on TV3 on the 6th of January at 11.20am.

It's also on ITV3

on 15th Dec at 6.20am
on 29th Dec at 8.15am
on 1st Jan at 2.20am
and on 2nd Jan at 8.35am