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Brides of Christ sounds like a modest miniseries about the lives of nuns in an Australian convent and girls' school in the 1960s. But within that simple summary are astonishing stories, both in the ri... read more read more...ch personal lives of the nuns and the cultural shifts at work as the Catholic Church struggled to bring itself into the modern age. Over six hourlong episodes, Brides of Christ focuses on six women: Sister Ambrose (Sandy Gore), the Mother Superior of Santo Spirito, whose gentle leadership goes astray when the school hires a male teacher; Sister Agnes (Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot), a conservative nun who resists the modernizing changes dictated by the Vatican; Sister Paul (Lisa Hensley), an uncomplicated but devoted young nun who leaves the sisterhood when she falls in love; Frances (a young Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive, 21 Grams), a student whose parents are undergoing divorce; Rosemary (Kym Wilson), a rebellious girl who fights against the sexual repression of the church; and woven through it all, Sister Catherine (Josephine Byrnes), an independent-thinking nun whose craving for reform puts her at odds with her superiors.

Brides of Christ balances respect and empathy with a critical social perspective, always channeled through these superbly realized women. The smart and deeply felt scripts are given dynamic life by uniformly beautiful performances (also appearing is a pre-stardom Russell Crowe). An absolutely fantastic miniseries that can't be recommended strongly enough. --Bret Fetzer

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Unrated, 5 hr. 27 min.

Directed by: Ken Cameron (II)

Release Date: June 13, 1993

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DVD Release Date: August 9, 2005

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  • itsjustme2004
    February 11, 2011
    itsjustme2004
    This was pretty good. In the course of six episodes, this mini-series traces the issues confronting the post-Vatican II Catholic Church through the lives of six women at an Australian convent. The surprising things are that it manages to do so while making you care deeply about t... read morehe fates of these women--and then it actually manages to wrap up the whole thing in a very satisfying way. I found the treatment of the issues to be very sensitive--not preachy one way or the other.
  • deano
    December 18, 2007
    deano
    Excellent Australian mini-series about a group of Catholic women - nuns, novices, and schoolgirls. Josephine Byrnes, Naomi Watts and Lisa Hensley make fantastic performances in their characters as my favourite ones.

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