Cabrini

I’m neither Italian nor Catholic, but I was glued to this massive achievement with unwavering fascination, finding it thoroughly and emotionally captivating.

Cabrini is in no way a perfect movie, but a damn dignified one that honors the little-known efforts of these fearless women.

The film, which feels overlong at 145 minutes, suffers both from repetition and an over-reliance on melodramatic plot devices. But it nonetheless delivers a compelling portrait of a heroine whose story is too little-known.

At its core, Cabrini is a feminist story whose bloated 140-minute runtime slightly overstays its welcome, but also packs an emotional punch for those willing to accept its message.

As a straightforward biopic of a woman whose name is much better known than her story, “Cabrini” fulfills its mission with the same purposeful earnestness of its subject. It’s a movie even the most secular of humanists can love.

Little insight is gained from what’s on screen.

It’s inspiring stuff, rendered stodgy and repetitive.

I am not a fan of modern religious cinema but the way Cabrini approaches the story, without divine intervention yet managing to include the faith and belief in each characters principles, makes it one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is common for religious movies to revolve around god and his will, but Cabrini steps away from that mold to tell a human story. Although the characters are motivated by values of the catholic church, it focuses more on a godless idea of human kindness, helping the less fortunate, and most importantly, the restoration of a dignified life for the immigrants. The real-life story of Francisca Cabrini is powerful and inspiring on its own, but it could have been approached in radically different ways. A woman who, with little support from the institution she works for and the sexist dismissal of her ideas by the politicians of her own country, finds the strength to help her Italian immigrant brothers by asking for support on successful sons of immigrants. It may be a story from more than a century ago but the themes of the american dream, immigration, and women fighting against sexism are still **** camera work is fluid and impeccable, with each character movement guiding the camera's position. The art and costume design, the Color and the cinematography combined make a spectacle of beauty comparable to few movies. Each frame is packed with symbolism. The display of light mastery of Gorka Andreu as cinematographer is impressive because instead of just making outstanding images, his lighting works as narrative tools that also carries the flow of the story. It may sound obvious that the cinematography should be an active participant in telling the story, through the lighting, blocking and **** many movies fail to achieve this. I could go on talking about the details of this great film, but while tasteless films with hundreds of millions of dollars in VFX fill the theaters, Cabrini lacks the same attention. It does not receive all the credit it deserves. Nonetheless, I understand that selling a story of a nun in a multi-religious and secular world is not an easy task. I hope that in the future, it can be rediscovered and appreciated.

Gosto demais da caracterização de Cabrini, com a roupa preta e olhar compenetrado, aliás em termos de construção de personagem, ficou muito bom. No entanto, ao tentar dar conta de muita coisa da vida dela, o filme obviamente fica cansativo, ainda que a edição tente, com cortes que conseguem dar dinamicidade à historia. Walras e Schumpeter já destacavam em suas teorias o poder central de empreendedores, e aqui temos uma biografia real que impressiona: mulher, imigrante, religiosa, pobre. Claro que o filme tem algumas lacunas, o orfanato vai crescendo de forma quase brusca, imagino que na vida real os percalços, especialmente materiais, foram maiores, mas talvez isso jogasse contra o fluxo. Nesse aspecto, Cabrini, apesar da extensão, é muito coeso, pois sabe exatamente onde quer chegar: mostrar os diversos cenários dela, e as pessoas envolvidas responsáveis por seus deslocamentos. Também é um filme cuja fotografia, parcebe-se, é feita com muito carinho, bem bonito de ver, a pobreza e os lugares mais lúgubres são pesadoa, de forma que a direção tenta dar uma equilibrada, o resultado é satisfatório. Uma pena o roteiro ser tão maniquísta. O filme cresce bastante quando se permite deixar entrar questões politicas, mas a caracterização desses coadjuvantes são péssimas. Em geral ficou bem satisfatório, mesmo com diálogos didáticos demais para compreender de forma bem linear sua trajetória. Um filme de fácil degustação, com pobreza e violência higienizadas. Vale a pena pela história incrível dessa mulher, e pelo fato do filme realmente se apegar a fatos mais do que a discursos, que estão bem contidos aqui.

Flat, preachy, way too long. Poorly developed characters, weak plot line, obviously made by christians for christians. Nice performances by seasoned talent not given much to work with. A request for money for a religious cause at the end.

The setting is never believable. The CGI is noticeable, and everyone's wardrobe looks like it came from a dry cleaner. The acting is melodramatic rather than dramatic, the pacing is uneven, and the adaptation seems to have been made solely for the purpose of feminism, which was distinct at the time. A highly pretentious and pretentious film.

What happens if you remove the deep prayer life and extraordinary love for Jesus that Mother Theresa of Calcuta had, and you only leave her services to the poor? You turn a saint and mystic into a mere social worker. That is the problem here: the movie neglects the deep devotion this Saint had for the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and her devotion to the Rosary, not to mention her faithfulness to the Catholic Church. These are major flaws that cannot be accepted in a movie focusing on a SAINT. And the "I am a strong independent woman" mindset that has no historical foundation (feminism doesn't take off until 1917, when the M. Cabrini was already dead) doesn't help either. EWTN released in 2018 the film "Mother Cabrini", it is free to watch. It will be for sure a more accurate depiction of this marvelous woman than this movie.