Sparrow

Year: 1993

Duration: 01:41:27

Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli

Actors: Angela Bettis, Johnathon Schaech, Eva Alexander

Language: English

Country: Italy| Japan

Also known as: La novicia, Storia di una capinera

Description: 1854. In Sicily raging cholera epidemic. The death collects her bloody toll. Where there is death - there is love, there is seething passion, loyalty and betrayal. In the center of this melodrama - a romantic story of a young nun, for the first time experiencing true love.

She is at the same time afraid of love, and could not resist it, despite the constant reproaches of her stepmother and stepsisters, nurturing her plans for the young man.

Review: The secret of happiness is simple: a love that was never ceases. When you believe in the Holy Spirit, then you know the one who was loved by you or someone who loved you will always be there (perhaps invisibly).

"Sparrow" - not so much a love story as a Christian parable about the difficult choice of the person suffering the inevitable for everyone, patience and humility to try their own fate. "The Lord has prepared a separate plan for me" - said one of the nuns. And it's true. For all the will of God, who knows better: who "kill" on the ground and give eternal happiness in the kingdom of heaven, and who suffer the sin that truly love ...

Maria - a young novice of the monastery. During the cholera epidemic is leaving his native land and never heard from the man of the word love. With only going after, in her soul! Confusion, fear - hitherto unknown feeling, tearing to pieces a child's heart. Yes, at 19 years old girl clean. It's easy to confuse the eye. What to say about the fiery, passionate men gusts in the spirit of Romeo!

Here Zeffirelli true to himself (conversations between two young people, the meaning of which - poetic and tender, resurrects a ghost image of the famous balcony in Verona). Night. Star. Wind. Rain ... But it's not a "Romeo and Juliet" and there is a crater of the volcano Etna. Admiring eyes of Mary most joyous day and shouts, "How can anyone doubt the existence of God?" Like a wounded bird, released to freedom, next to a young man, a girl gets wings, but its purpose - to love God and his alone? .. In the eyes of Nino fades unspoken phrase: "I want to be your husband, to take over your defenseless existence, responsibility, love you."

That's because the strangeness of life. The eternal duality. As long as one does not embarrass the soul, the other remains intact. Director of the film makes the emphasis on close-ups of the heroine (first at home in the monastery, near the latticed windows, and then in his native home, near a window without bars). In both cases, Mary happy. She knows exactly what she wants. After going through the pain and terrible torments of the heart, in the final, she again finds a secret way to happiness, which is that he never forgets the love that was the main thing is not to betray her in his heart. So, the "nightingale warbling singing" can be for any obstructions and any cells that are creating something more ...

Review #2: One of the best films of all time, timeless. Love story as old as the world and the main character to make a difficult choice between God and the beloved, but would not it be a choice to be too late?

Watching this movie is simply amazing, it seems that vnem simply no flaws, ranging from acting and directing work to the beautiful scenery and music, all wonderfully and flawlessly. Well, Angela Bettis just unbelievably good in their roles, you can not imagine any other actress in her place.

This is the story of a girl who only knew life monastic life, only the love of God. One day she comes home to meet him. Because of what she has experienced another love - the earth. But she did not realize it for too long, and when she realized it was too late - or rather, she realized that this love can only live in the heart.

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