Title: If You Loved the Book...
Product review: If you love the book as much as I do, you'll probably see the video/movie as a pale imitation. Granted, the media differ--no film could ever include all the episodes in the book. But, we never learn why Phillipa decided to enter the monestary, there's no Abbess Hester, no Keith, no Sister Polycarp, no Duranski, no motive for the entry of the Japanese postulants and so forth.The theme of the film is that Phillipa must learn to love everyone equally. Mercifully, the screen writer did leave us Dame Agnes, if only so Phillipa could have a difficult person to learn to love. The theme is therefore "monastic." Therefore this film is a cut above far too many movies about nuns.
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