Dear friends: Last night I was finally able to watch the lovely new film "Fatima," which I highly recommend. It's a faithful version of the appearances of Our Lady of #Fatima, in Portugal in 1917 to three young children....
It has a stellar cast and high production values and a fine script. The film reminded me a great deal of "The Song of Bernadette" (1943), about St. Bernadette's visions in Lourdes, especially in its refusal to sugarcoat the initial opposition faced by the young visionaries....
(Both the Fatima visionaries and Bernadette were originally disbelieved by both their parents and the local priest, who later came to support them.) The device of the elderly Sister Lucia (Sonia Braga) being interviewed by a journalist (Harvey Keitel) was a great way to frame...
the narrative. Also, I appreciated that the film was refreshingly frank about the actual visions, portraying Our Lady much in the way that the children described her. The "Miracle of the Sun," on the other hand, was harder to reproduce--there were thousands of witnesses...
...but also many versions of what the witnesses had seen--but the filmmakers did a great job. I hope you can see this beautiful film about an important event in 20th century Catholicism. (And, in case it's not clear, I believe in the story of both Lourdes and Fatima.) Enjoy!
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