Saint John Bosco, Mission to LoveOur family watched this film last week, borrowed from the parish's Youth Group's DVD library. We loved it! The actor who played the saint of the youth is wonderful, likable, believable.
I read tidbits of this saint to the kids during homeschool through the years, but the film really brought it to life: his choice to be with troubled kids and to transform them by the power of God's love is very well demonstrated in the film.
Little Saint Dominic Savio brought tears to all of our eyes, and I think helped all of us to desire holiness more deeply!
Description from Ignatius Press:
Flavio Insinna gives a winning performance as John (Don) Bosco, the great priest and educator of youth from the tough streets of Turin, Italy. Beautifully filmed in Italy, this epic movie dramatizes the many challenges that Don Bosco had to overcome from this childhood through founding his religious order, the Salesians, for helping educate boys. Growing up without a father gave him compassion for the many orphans that he cared for, while he faced persecution from both secular society and the Church as he fought to build a place to house and educate the homeless, outcast youth of Turin. His deep faith, creative imagination and profound charity shine through in this wonderful film. Also stars Charles Dance (Gosford Park) and popular Italian singer and actress Lina Sastri.
2 comments:
We watched it last month around the time of his feast day. And everyone loved it! I didn't care for the English voices they chose, though. If we didn't have littles that wouldn't be able to read the subtitles, I would have preferred to hear it in Italian. Also, at the end they say what happened to the main boys in the story. I wanted them to say that Bruno married Marietta !!!! But perhaps those were fictional characters. I loved the story of Bruno throughout the movie, though - a kind of archtype for the kind of success St. John had in rescuing these boys from the jaws of hell.
It's long movie, so we watched it over two nights.
Why can't American companies be making these movies!!!
Margot
I couldn't agree more! And I too prefer to watch it in Italian--as a matter of fact, that' what we did!
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