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Petergee
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No disrespect to Mr Abraham’s skills as an actor, and I do appreciate the fact that he is working for this film which (unless it turns out to be a “hatchet job” full of sleazy lies about Newman and the Church) will not be a big commercial success and so he won’t make much money from it; but why does Newman have to be played by an American? - let alone a Texan of Assyrian and Italian descent? Nobody could be more quintessentially English than Blessed John Newman.
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Dale_M
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This is a rough Google translation from the Italian, but here is a description of the focus of the film.
I’m not familiar with the director’s work, but in an earlier interview she stated that
(again, this is a rough Google translation from the Italian)
The World Unseen’ (The invisible world), with the title director Liana Marabini wants to be a metaphysical state of contact between man and God to which Newman refers often in his work.The action is set against the Victorian England in a game of opposition between past and future, between colonialism and suffragettes, the eternal conflict between good and evil. Convert, liturgy, betrayal, chastity ‘of priests: these are complex issues into negotiations with the intent to get us into the world to better understand with deep priestly’ and clarity.
translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.agi.it/cinenews/xx-mese-200x/notizie/titolo-dellarticolo42&ei=d3HCTNCIBYPAnAeC_d3TCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ7gEwADgK&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522The%2BUnseen%2BWorld%2522%2Bnewman%2B%2522Liana%2BMarabini%2522%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENUS293%26prmd%3DivnoThe film tackles in particular the concept of “spiritual friendship”, a privilege reserved for few, explaining the deep connection between Newman and Ambrose St. John, a bond that lasted beyond death, which has always caused suspicion, curiosity 'morbid and other areas shadow. Enhance the image of the Church to evangelize through the media and culture: this and 'the path taken by Marabini through its films and other initiatives, including the establishment of “Mirabile dictu, the International Catholic Film Festival”, a prestigious private space for expression producers and directors of movies with positive values and heroes.
I’m not familiar with the director’s work, but in an earlier interview she stated that
(again, this is a rough Google translation from the Italian)
“In my films I like to emphasize the glamorous face of the Church, the one institution left standing for two thousand years.”
translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.agi.it/l-intervista/notizie/liana-marabini-nei-miei-film-sottolineo-il-volto-glamour-della-chiesa&ei=d3HCTNCIBYPAnAeC_d3TCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCEQ7gEwATgK&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522The%2BUnseen%2BWorld%2522%2Bnewman%2B%2522Liana%2BMarabini%2522%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENUS293%26prmd%3Divno“I like to illustrate historical figures that have made the Church. So I made a film about Vivaldi, one on Mendel and I plan on a Cure of Ars, a sort of Padre Pio, patron saint of priests (” Fighting with the Devil “- ed) and one on Cardinal Newman, an Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism, which will be 'beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 (” The World Unseen "- Ed.) In 2011, moreover, lighthouse’ a film about the battle Lepanto. "
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