Singende nonne soeur sourire biography
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This makes the movie plodding and very boring in places. By the early 1980s the Belgian government began claiming that she owed back taxes of more than $47,000; she claimed that the money was given to the convent and therefore exempt from taxes. O.K., so "The Singing Nun" is not The Sound of Music! Belgium's Catholic authorities granted their wish to be buried in consecrated ground.
Her vocals in the movie, as far as I'm concerned, are superb! It also projects a too-virginal image that gets old very quickly. He saw us suffer," the women wrote in their last letter. What is sad is that neither version would make a very good film. One year later, she caused outrage among her Catholic fans when she released a song in support of contraception titled Glory be to God for the Golden Pill.
On the other hand, "The flying, er, Singing Nun" has some good acting by Anges Moorehead who is my favourite Red Headed Actress and Bey**ch, oh I just loved Agnes, she could do anything including all kinds of ethnic parts, Ricardo Montal-Khan dons a priestly habit rather than a pair of swim trunks or 23rd Century Barbarian Garb, and Katherine Ross is very good: Almost to the point that she does not resemble a girl who is heading toward prostitution, she is too squeaky-clean.
(Think of how fantastically the movie Hilary and Jackie showed a woman's conflicts about having her life revolve around music).
When I was a boy, Sister Soeur's songs were the leitmotif of our Catholic grade school - we all had to learn them in French, sing them in Christmas concerts for our parents, etc. So, remember that in those days, you didn't know what the preview would be until the film started rolling in the movie theater, and if my memory serves me correct, it was given a sneak preview in Minneapolis, and after the first half played, everyone screamed, clapped and whistled, and after the second half it sounded like the roof of theater was caving in because of the positive response, so Fox said, "Now wait a minute!
A Belgian nun with a beautiful voice finds unexpected stardom after entering a talent contest, but her sudden rise to fame challenges her religious devotion and stirs complicated feelings fr... wanted, but it gave Debbie Reynolds the chance to do her finest singing ever! At the time, it was STRONGLY suggested by the sisters teaching us that we go to see this movie.
She joined the girl scouts and in 1959 withdrew into a Dominican convent near Waterloo in defiance of her strict parents.
A talented singer and guitar player, Deckers performed under the stage name “Soeur Sourire” (Sister Smile). It's such a shame that such an awful movie celebrates such light, cheery music. In 1965, a movie called The Singing Nun, starring Debbie Reynolds, was made about her, though she rejected the film as "fictional".
Around the same time, she stopped performing and entered a rigorous religious life in the convent.
She performed in concerts and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. Sadly, she and Pescher both committed suicide in 1985. I'm sure a 2002 film would search for the seediest of details and revel in her contradictions. There is a song called "Sister Adele" about her Spanish guitar which is also not the same song as the one played in the film, and another funny item is the guitar Debbie Reynolds wields happens to be a Nylon Stringed Classical guitar- A Spanish Guitar does not have a round hole, a Spanish Guitar happens to have F-Holes and steel strings.
Even though this film is fiction and fantasy and ideology, I do not cringe when I see it like I do "The Sound of Music" or "My Fair Lady"- where I do not know why they bothered to write dialogue when they could have just sung those movies all the way through with no dialogue whatsoever.
It's truly not worth watching.
billsav57
Times change
I was a very young Catholic school student when this movie came out (see my comments about the TV show "The Flying Nun").