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Outstanding Production
Brides of Christ is one of the best Mini Series on the Catholic Church ever made. Set in Australia around the time of Vatican II, it shows the effects the changes Vatican II unleashed and how individuals in and out of the church reacted to these changes. The entire cast is nothing but talent. Irish actress Brenda Fricker is perfectly cast as sister Agnes the hard-line old guard nun and Josephine Byrnes is the perfect rebel nun. You will also be treated to early performances by a young Naomi Watts and Russell Crowe. But Fricker and Byrnes together steal the whole mini series. You must own this Mini Series for your collection !

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The best movie I have seen in many years
Although the story line took place in Australia, at the other end of the world, I could relate to every sister, student, family members, and their friends in this great movie, "Brides of Christ." I was educated by the sisters for twelve years during the 1940's and 1950's. With my Irish Catholic upbringing from my parents, and from the sisters, this movie was so powerful that I felt strong respect for Sister Agnes. Brenda Fricker lived the part of that dedicated sister who had the great love for Christ, and at the same time, she was trying to instill the proper Catholic values in the students before they faced the outside world. Mother Ambrose was an absolutely brilliant lady, and also very human, and had much compassion and love for the sisters and students at Santo Spirito. I felt very sad when Sister Paul made a, what might have seemed, decision in haste to leave to marry the "rebel" priest. However, I was then overjoyed over the way she resolved her situation/problem.

I remember vividly all the changes during the 1960's after Vatican II with the mass exodus of the priests and sisters from their religious orders. Oh yes, I felt that Jack, the rebel priest along with many other ex-priests that I so well recall, were proponents of rapid changes, which for most of the conservative Catholics like myself, could and were accepted much more gradually. Therefore, this film had a such a profound effect of me that in between each video session, I felt as though I were involved with each and every character in the story; some of whom I loved, Sr. Agnes, Mother Ambrose, Sr. Catharine, Sr. Paul, Sr. Patrick, and the occasional ones whom I disliked, for instance, the rebel priest. Why did Jack have to get so angry at the church? He remained within it long enough to become accepted and ordained a priest. There were a couple of prissy little missies at the boarding school who reminded me of some of the "popular" girls, and I, as an underdog in my later high school years, had experienced ,and until this day I could never forget their obnoxious antics.

I felt compassion for Sr. Philomena who had the most difficulty in accepting the changes. However, I could not quite comprehend the actions of the girls when she appeared with the "purple" hair. When I was in high school during the 1950's, we would never get away with being so rude as to openly laugh like that any of the sisters.

The church music and the mystique of that particular time, made me nostalgic of my Roman Catholicism. This film made me come away from it with prayerful thanksgiving at having been privileged to experience knowing similar people in my lifetime. I only rented it, but my plans are to buy it, and I will watch "Brides of Christ" every could of months forever.

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Awesome Movie
Religion and social change are backdrops to this critically acclaimed miniseries about teachers and students at a convent school in 1960s Australia.