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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Angel Studios
- 2 h 22 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Angel Studios
- 2 h 22 m
Summary Cabrini charts the rise of a poor audacious woman who became one of the great entrepreneurs of the 19th Century - Through her willpower, courage and business skill, overcame sexism and violent anti-Italian bigotry in 19th century New York.
Directed By: Alejandro Monteverde
Written By: Rod Barr, Alejandro Monteverde
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Angel Studios
- 2 h 22 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Angel Studios
- 2 h 22 m
Cabrini
51
6.9
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Summary Cabrini charts the rise of a poor audacious woman who became one of the great entrepreneurs of the 19th Century - Through her willpower, courage and business skill, overcame sexism and violent anti-Italian bigotry in 19th century New York.
Directed By: Alejandro Monteverde
Written By: Rod Barr, Alejandro Monteverde
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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36% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
51
36% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
43% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
21% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
I’m neither Italian nor Catholic, but I was glued to this massive achievement with unwavering fascination, finding it thoroughly and emotionally captivating.
Cabrini is in no way a perfect movie, but a damn dignified one that honors the little-known efforts of these fearless women.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
6.9
69% Positive
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6% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
6.9
69% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
6% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
25% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
I saw this masterpiece 2X, it's only sad to see such obvious religious bias in many reviews. These saintly women with Mother Cabrini at the helm accomplished more than ANY politician or religious org. of her time on a world wide field with God as her guide. Don't minimize her achievements, she fought these battles for the least of us, the poor. She provided education and healthcare, building hospitals and schools, by sheer love of God and the strength of her character. Stop the snobbish bloviating and give this wonderful story the accolades it so richly deserves. This world of today is in desperate need of another Mother Cabrini, let's encourage our young men and women to stop chasing money and start doing God's work, where the rewards are so much greater. And also show them that films like these are meant to inspire everyone for a better and caring world view.
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Wonderful movie!! What a history lesson of compassion and generosity. I never knew about this wonderful woman!
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The film, which feels overlong at 145 minutes, suffers both from repetition and an over-reliance on melodramatic plot devices. But it nonetheless delivers a compelling portrait of a heroine whose story is too little-known.
At its core, Cabrini is a feminist story whose bloated 140-minute runtime slightly overstays its welcome, but also packs an emotional punch for those willing to accept its message.
As a straightforward biopic of a woman whose name is much better known than her story, “Cabrini” fulfills its mission with the same purposeful earnestness of its subject. It’s a movie even the most secular of humanists can love.
It’s inspiring stuff, rendered stodgy and repetitive.
I am not a fan of modern religious cinema but the way Cabrini approaches the story, without divine intervention yet managing to include the faith and belief in each characters principles, makes it one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is common for religious movies to revolve around god and his will, but Cabrini steps away from that mold to tell a human story. Although the characters are motivated by values of the catholic church, it focuses more on a godless idea of human
kindness, helping the less fortunate, and most importantly, the restoration of a dignified life for the immigrants. The real-life story of Francisca Cabrini is powerful and inspiring on its own, but it could have been approached in radically different ways. A woman who, with little support from the institution she works for and the sexist dismissal of her ideas by the politicians of her own country, finds the strength to help her Italian immigrant brothers by asking for support on successful sons of immigrants. It may be a story from more than a century ago but the themes of the american dream, immigration, and women fighting against sexism are still **** camera work is fluid and impeccable, with each character movement guiding the camera's position. The art and costume design, the Color and the cinematography combined make a spectacle of beauty comparable to few movies. Each frame is packed with symbolism. The display of light mastery of Gorka Andreu as cinematographer is impressive because instead of just making outstanding images, his lighting works as narrative tools that also carries the flow of the story. It may sound obvious that the cinematography should be an active participant in telling the story, through the lighting, blocking and **** many movies fail to achieve this. I could go on talking about the details of this great film, but while tasteless films with hundreds of millions of dollars in VFX fill the theaters, Cabrini lacks the same attention. It does not receive all the credit it deserves. Nonetheless, I understand that selling a story of a nun in a multi-religious and secular world is not an easy task. I hope that in the future, it can be rediscovered and appreciated.
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Flat, preachy, way too long. Poorly developed characters, weak plot line, obviously made by christians for christians. Nice performances by seasoned talent not given much to work with. A request for money for a religious cause at the end.
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The title character was a real nun (played by Cristiana Dell'Anna) who travelled to New York in 1889, where she witnessed the extreme poverty of orphaned Italian children. She set about to create a refuge for these abandoned immigrants, despite the bigotry and sexism in her path. This is the true story of this woman who became America's first saint told in a straightforward narrative. Even so, it sometimes falls in to melodrama and some of the encounters get repetitive. John Lithgow and David Morse play authority figures with a welcome appearance from Giancarlo Giannini as the Pope. Director Alejandro Monteverde directed Sound of Freedom (my review), which also conceals a message in the story. There is lovely, dramatic cinematography by Gorka Gómez Andreu, who also did Sound of Freedom. Sadly, despite all the setbacks the nuns and orphans faced, there's not much emotional heft in the direction. Even though it's an interesting story, it's told in a flat, traditional style and is too long (2:25). This is the newest effort from Angel Studios to galvanize public opinion around the message about the importance of all people. There's a special QR code during the credits, where audience members can buy tickets and "pass it forward."
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What happens if you remove the deep prayer life and extraordinary love for Jesus that Mother Theresa of Calcuta had, and you only leave her services to the poor? You turn a saint and mystic into a mere social worker. That is the problem here: the movie neglects the deep devotion this Saint had for the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and her devotion to the Rosary, not to mention her faithfulness to the Catholic Church. These are major flaws that cannot be accepted in a movie focusing on a SAINT. And the "I am a strong independent woman" mindset that has no historical foundation (feminism doesn't take off until 1917, when the M. Cabrini was already dead) doesn't help either. EWTN released in 2018 the film "Mother Cabrini", it is free to watch. It will be for sure a more accurate depiction of this marvelous woman than this movie.
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Production Company
Francesca Film Production NY
Release Date Mar 8, 2024
Duration 2 h 22 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The world is too small for what I intend to do.
Website
http://www.cabrinifilm.com/home
