Wordiezett So much average

Steineded How sad is this?

InspireGato Film Perfection

Console best movie i've ever seen.

young_scholar Cardinal Lustinger's confession of faith is a compelling story. Yet, I do not find Catholics speaking much of him. I suspect there is an important clue in this movie why Jean - Paul gave Lustinger the Red Hat. In their first meeting Jean - Paul told Lustinger "there are alot of perfumed Italian priests who'd like to teach me how to be pope." Jean - Paul also spoke of his childhood Jewish playmate, Jerzey. I suspect Jean - Paul, the master of languages, needed someone nearby with whom he could converse privately in a tongue incomprehensible to snooping ears. In addition to negotiating the departure of the Carmelite nuns from Auschwitz, Cardinal Lustinger must be credited for being the very first in the Christian world to detect the fallacies in a popular movie about the passion.

sergelamarche This seems to be a TV movie. It explains his impacts in the 80s but it is not an epic journey. His life however was probably more epic. Lots of arguing but the film seems to lack poise. It is somewhat light like a comedy. Also, too much smoking by the church representants looks like sin nowaday. Although probably accurate, it does not convey the stress but rather a bad habit.

edwagreen An outstanding masterpiece detailing the story of Cardinal Lustiger, who at age 14 converted to Catholicism to escape the horrors of the holocaust which claimed his mother and left a bitter father.Despite his conversion, the Cardinal, who rose rapidly in the church, always wanted to continue his cultural identity as a Jew, even pointing out that he was still a Jew and using Jesus as an example. He rose rapidly in the church hierarchy and tries to strengthen Catholicism to adopt to the modern world by use of the media.It shows his relations with his family and the second part of the film deals with the nuns living at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp which caused much controversy in the late 1980s. Lustiger fought on principle for the removal of the nuns, even in the face of an intransigent church.In the title role, Laurent Lucas is magnificent as the conflicted Cardinal. A totally under-rated film which needs much more widespread distribution.

dbrayshaw This movie carries with it a large amount of animosity between Jews and Catholics, especially in regard to who owned the rights to display Auschwitz as a central part of their history of suffering. But, to me, it expresses a great need to announce to the world the completeness by those Jews who have grown to accept Jesus as their long awaited Messiah. What some have come to call themselves today -- those who are both Christian and Jewish at birth -- is a "completed Jew." There are today many Messianic Christian fellowships, one of which is called Jews for Jesus. Obviously, during the time this film was made, there weren't that many completed Jews making public statements, so that is why it was so newsworthy in the mid 80s. Today, this fact should be old news.