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Post by Craig Herbertson on May 29, 2012 11:06:05 GMT
Notable to horror fans only for a sterling display by a young Vincent Price who plays a local cynic, The Song of Bernadette is a sympathetic and at times gently humorous account of the life of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a sickly French peasant who sees miraculous visions of a beautiful lady. This all occurs in Lourdes in 1858 and the rest is history. The film is actually good - it takes the basic line that if you believe you'll find it all explicable and if not you'll never be convinced. Price is young but oozes talent. Viewable here www.youtube.com/user/angelamwattsGot me looking at Lourdes. Since this time there have been 67 inexplicable cures at Lourdes - fairly well verified. Anyone else get a horrific chill down the spine when you see these shrines, miracles, cemeteries, nunneries, priests and crowds of worshipers in these old films?
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Post by sara on Jun 10, 2012 19:32:35 GMT
Absolutely Craig! I’ve long since been fascinated by Marian apparitions and with Lourdes in particular. In fact, scrap that manky old Poe book I posted a while earlier, this is the book I’d grab if the house was on fire: It was given to my other half when he was about 8 or 9 years old and taken on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Diagnosed with advance staged Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the prognosis wasn’t good. Needless to say he is still alive today to tell the tale, so I guess I have a lot to thank Bernadette and her beautiful lady for! And yeah, I thought Vincent Price was great in this movie.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jun 10, 2012 20:55:41 GMT
I recommend Jessica Hausner's Lourdes as a quietly ambiguous follow-up.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 10, 2012 21:15:23 GMT
I recommend Jessica Hausner's Lourdes as a quietly ambiguous follow-up. I'll definitely have a look. One of my pals recently did a walking pilgrimage to Santiago - 34 days of torture. it was one of these moments where you hesitantly ask - ' was it a... religious commitment...' and are somewhat relieved to hear they'd heard it was good fun in a peculiar sort of way. I'm extremely keen on these old religious epics as social documents. They give you a double take when you've seen them as a gullible kid and then watch them as a cynical adult
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Post by marksamuels on Jun 11, 2012 0:38:28 GMT
The Song Of Bernadette is absolutely wonderful.
I doubt its message will appeal to any member of the (once radical but now very much Establishment) anti-spiritual materialists who determine the cultural agenda in the West, but hey ho. So what?
Mark S.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 11, 2012 5:05:18 GMT
Absolutely Craig! I’ve long since been fascinated by Marian apparitions and with Lourdes in particular. In fact, scrap that manky old Poe book I posted a while earlier, this is the book I’d grab if the house was on fire: It was given to my other half when he was about 8 or 9 years old and taken on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Diagnosed with advance staged Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the prognosis wasn’t good. Needless to say he is still alive today to tell the tale, so I guess I have a lot to thank Bernadette and her beautiful lady for! And yeah, I thought Vincent Price was great in this movie. Excellent your other half was cured by the way
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 11, 2012 7:46:39 GMT
I recommend Jessica Hausner's Lourdes as a quietly ambiguous follow-up. I recommend Hausner's really creepy HOTEL.
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Post by noose on Jun 11, 2012 9:35:47 GMT
Mark's BACK!!!!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 11, 2012 11:00:28 GMT
Mark's BACK!!!! So he is. Good stuff.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jun 11, 2012 12:04:28 GMT
Got me looking at Lourdes. Since this time there have been 67 inexplicable cures at Lourdes Rather depends on your definition of "inexplicable" - as Emile Zola noted, there are many discarded crutches at Lourdes but no discarded wooden legs.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 11, 2012 13:27:47 GMT
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 11, 2012 13:55:50 GMT
Got me looking at Lourdes. Since this time there have been 67 inexplicable cures at Lourdes Rather depends on your definition of "inexplicable" - as Emile Zola noted, there are many discarded crutches at Lourdes but no discarded wooden legs. That made me laugh. The percentages of inexplicable cures compared to numbers of people is also interesting. if I set up a shrine in my garden I might manage to inexplicably cure a few people over a period of time.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 11, 2012 14:20:28 GMT
Got me looking at Lourdes. Since this time there have been 67 inexplicable cures at Lourdes Rather depends on your definition of "inexplicable" - as Emile Zola noted, there are many discarded crutches at Lourdes but no discarded wooden legs. That's because artificial limbs are expensive. After my uncle died we had to return his false leg to the hospital from which it had been issued. No discarding there! That's my explanation anyway!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jun 12, 2012 19:44:16 GMT
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Post by sara on Jun 13, 2012 0:06:36 GMT
I recommend Jessica Hausner's Lourdes as a quietly ambiguous follow-up. Yes I saw this on the telly recently, I thought the lead actress was amazing. Excellent your other half was cured by the way Thanks Craig Danny himself is rather blasé about his cure and his time at Lourdes, though he has some very fond memories of late night poker games with the priests. He tends to ascribe his recovery more to the resilience of youth and of having no idea how ill he was at the time. Me on the other hand, I’ll always think of it as a miracle.
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