I absolutely love this movie!

Ed in MO

This is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen.  Whenever I feel down or my energy lags, I pop this film into my VCR and I'm transformed. The rythm of the movie is what I enjoy most.  It is like a great symphony, with rising action that compliments the wonderful music by Donovan.


This is a film that is totally captive to its time and place.  It's impossible to think of this movie being made five years earlier or later. It is completely a product of the early '70's.  The brotherly love shown by the Franciscans of Assisi, the touching of man to man without a hint of homosexuality, would be unthinkable today.

Franco Zeffrelli is a master of setting up his camera and location shooting. Notice the great sweeps over the lovely red and yellow fields of Italy, and the use of the architecture of the region.

score /10

Ed in MO 25 March 2004

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