DVD release?
Has this been released yet on DVD in Europe? It certainly hasn't in the U.S. The movie has been out for awhile now...What is the hold-up on DVD?
shareAvailable in France from November 2009 but no English subtitles as yet.
shareToo bad. I'll wait for it. I read a bio of Soeur Sourire, and what a turbulent life she led: terrible childhood, cloistered convent life, unexpected stardom, the inevitable fall, leaving the convent, being ripped off financially (driving her to extreme poverty), having a female lover, and finally. . . the suicide pact. The Catholic Church disapproved of just about all of the above, so it was years before she had a memorial of any kind, but I've seen pictures of one with Annie's name on it. I really, really want to see this movie even if I have to see it in French and figure it out, like a silent movie (which is easier than people think).
shareI hope they release this as a Region 1 DVD one of these days, as I would really like to see it. A fascinating and tragic story and it sounds like this movie tried to capture that.
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I also hope they release a Region 1 DVD with English subtitles. I've just watched Debbie Reynolds in "The Singing Nun," and I'd prefer to see the true story of this fascinating footnote in pop and Catholic culture. Really, I'd rather see a documentary than a biopic, but we takes what we gets.
shareI agree, and would also prefer a documentary as well. But at least "Soeur Sourire" isn't, as M-G-M's "The Singing Nun" (1966) was, [potential SPOILER ALERT] a Hollywood whitewashing of Jeanine Decker's life, complete with bogus quasi-romance between a motor scooter-riding Debbie Reynolds and Chad Everett.
Don't get me wrong--MGM's "The Singing Nun" was entertaining, well-acted by some prestigious actors (besides Reynolds and relative newcomer Everett, Greer Garson and Agnes Moorehead, as well the up-and-coming Katharine Ross and Ricardo Montalbán; the latter still several years before he would plug "rich Corinthian leather" in car commercials and begin meeting "da plane, da plane" in a science-fantasy television series), and with some well-produced music. I saw that film when it was initially released in theaters in 1966, when I was eight years old. But it certainly wasn't the true life story of Jeanine Deckers. In fact, the M-G-M film was based less on fact than "The Sound of Music" was on the Von Trapp family story, which at least had most of the basic history of the Von Trapps correct.
Of course, at eight years old I probably wasn't prepared to deal with a film [potential SPOILER ALERT] about a singing nun leaving the convent, recording a song praising birth control, and becoming a drug addict before entering into a suicide pact with her lesbian lover. But, in 2015, I think I would find such a story very interesting, albeit perhaps a tad sacrilegious!
By the way, do you know if this film has yet been released on DVD with English subtitles, or, better yet, a DVD dubbed into English by credible voice actors?