On a remote monastery in the 1940s, so the backdrop is the second world war. And the monastery is being presided over by a nun, who i play, whos officiating mass, the priest is dead. And one night, unceremoniously, a young indigenous boy is dumped on the doorstep of the monastery to be cared for as part of the reprehensible Government Policy of assimilation of indigenous children, in order to separate indigenous children from their culture. And this powerful spirituality of this young boy destabilises the surety of the catholic faith there, and these strange miracles start to happen. Which we see so vividly in the performance by this little boy, by aswan reid, just nine years old, and you cant take your eyes off him when hes on screen. Hes absolutely magnetic. Erm, i mean, we were so lucky to find him. I remember warwick. Warwick thornton and i started to have these conversations over the pandemic, as a lot of people did, you know, and he was talking about this story, and he said, but
When George Stevens made a second movie based on Theodore Dreiser’s classic 1920’s novel, “An American Tragedy,” he chose three of Hollywood’s leading actors of the era, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters, which pretty much.
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When our favorite Bates College professor and classic film consultant, Dr. Jon Cavallero and I began talking about the theme of this year’s classic series, “The Great Directors,” we, of course, started with Maine’s own John Ford who has been called.