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Love for life.

Ooo I saw that one too and loved it!
I never knew their backgrounds before, and knowing them now puts me in awe. haha I was cheering them on out loud.
Saints are so cool.

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Maria_Faustina

Ooh, I would love to and need to learn more about both of them. Is that the actual name of the movie--"Clare and Francis"? Thank you for telling us about it!

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Maria_Faustina

[quote name='tinytherese' post='1737426' date='Dec 28 2008, 11:50 PM']"Clare and Francis" is the title. It's a new one that came out. Ignatius press distributes it.[/quote]

Thank you very much. :)

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Maria_Faustina

[quote name='tinytherese' post='1737426' date='Dec 28 2008, 11:50 PM']"Clare and Francis" is the title. It's a new one that came out. Ignatius press distributes it.[/quote]

Double post..

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Has anyone else seen The Flowers of St. Francis? I saw it for the first time the other night. Some scenes really were touching.

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[quote name='tinytherese' post='1740817' date='Jan 1 2009, 06:24 PM']Has anyone else seen The Flowers of St. Francis? I saw it for the first time the other night. Some scenes really were touching.[/quote]
I have it checked out from the library. maria_faustina and I might watch it on saturday. :)

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That is the black and white one, right? Yes, I have seen it; the beggar is priceless. I heard they used actual friars to play the roles ;)

"Brother Sun, Sister Moon" is a bit of a hippy interpretation of the story, but is good in parts.

[url="http://www.franciscan-sfo.org/ap/vita1n2.htm"]HERE[/url] are excerpts from the Life of St. Francis (the first biography written about him immediately after his death) for those who are curious about his life.

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[quote name='MithLuin' post='1741784' date='Jan 3 2009, 01:26 PM']That is the black and white one, right? Yes, I have seen it; the beggar is priceless. I heard they used actual friars to play the roles ;)

"Brother Sun, Sister Moon" is a bit of a hippy interpretation of the story, but is good in parts.

[url="http://www.franciscan-sfo.org/ap/vita1n2.htm"]HERE[/url] are excerpts from the Life of St. Francis (the first biography written about him immediately after his death) for those who are curious about his life.[/quote]No, it was much more recent.

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[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042477/"]The Flowers of St. Francis[/url] was a black and white Italian film made in 1950. It consists of vignettes rather than an over-arching story.

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069824/"]Brother Son, Sister Moon[/url] was made in 1972, and while it gets the spirit of the story very well, it has a few dated, anti-establishment themes that don't work very well.

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097383/"]Francesco[/url] from 1989. I think I have seen a few clips from this movie, but not the whole thing. It is likely more accurate than [i]Brother Sun, Sister Moon[/i], but possibly less fun.

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Clare-Francis-Petruolo-Ettore-Bassi/dp/B001EPKKUK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1230996884&sr=8-1"]Clare and Francis[/url] came out just this past fall on DVD. I haven't seen it yet.

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I really didn't like Brother Son, Sister Moon. Way too hippy and some parts were just weird. Like Francis randomly freaking out during mass. Also, I was suspicious that Clare might have joined Francis because she was in love with him and really wasn't as concerned with following God.

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