Cabrini

2024

PG-13

2h 22m

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7.8/10

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Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

Directors

Alejandro Monteverde

Writers

Rod Barr(story by)

Alejandro Monteverde(story by)

Rod Barr(screenplay by)

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Cristiana Dell'Anna

David Morse

Giancarlo Giannini

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Francesca Cabrini

Archbishop Corrigan

Pope Leo XIII

Mayor Gould

Romana Maggiora Vergano

Vittoria

Paolo

Aria

Disalvo

Calloway

Federico Castelluccio

Senator Bodio

Dr. Murphy

Peterson

Deputy Mayor Jenkins

Jacob Abrams

Father Morelli

Officer Rentschler

Cardinale

Mr. Merton

Directors

Alejandro Monteverde

Writers

Rod Barr(story by)

Alejandro Monteverde(story by)

Rod Barr(screenplay by)

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7/10

Cristiana Dell'Anna delivers strongly here as the eponymous nun determined to set up a network of orphanages in China to help the sick and impoverished children there. Her persistent hassling of the Vatican for permission - and funds - has finally wound them up to the point where she is invited to Rome to be finally told no. Even there, though, she's sticking to her guns and after a persuasive audience with Pope Leo XIII (Giancarlo Giannini) manages to get permission to prove her worth - only in New York! To it's slum and run-down Five Points district she is sent and what now begins is an adventure that tests her very mettle as the, at best indifferent, attitude of the Archbishop (David Morse) is more concerned with appeasing the Mayor (John Lithgow) than facilitating her wishes for profound change. It's curious that in a city founded by immigrants there existed such a polarity of the Italian, the Jewish and Irish communities offering little, if any, tolerance of the other. Cabrini realises that neither her religion nor her status as a nun is going to help her - she is going to have to recruit local urchins and fight for every scrap of progress. It's history, so we do know what ultimately happens but Alejandro Monteverde has produced a classy looking portrait that still imbues enough jeopardy into the proceedings as she struggles. Her single-minded determination, her bloody-mindedness - all tempered with huge amounts of humanity and decency are well portrayed here. This is a very good looking film, and the narrative also demonstrates clearly the diminished role of women in what purported to be an open and democratic society - American and Italian, and a class system that cared little for those who lived on the wrong side of the tracks. It's a bit long - there are moments that slow the pace down and drag the story, but in the main this is a poignant telling of the story of a woman who was prepared to sacrifice whatever was necessary for those less privileged.

Geronimo196717 Mar, 2024