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Soft-focus spiritual gunk. Mar 11, 2015 | Full Review…
Soft-focus spiritual gunk.
Don Druker
Zeffirelli's work looks like a Sunday-school coloring book: everything is glowingly photogenic, including poverty, and leprosy. Mar 11, 2015 | Full Review…
Zeffirelli's work looks like a Sunday-school coloring book: everything is glowingly photogenic, including poverty, and leprosy.
Jay Cocks
Franco Zeffirelli has utilized a style of simple elegance, befitting both the period and the subject. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Franco Zeffirelli has utilized a style of simple elegance, befitting both the period and the subject.
Variety Staff
Avoid at all costs. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Avoid at all costs.
Geoff Andrew
Zeffirelli has made a big, absurd doodad, a movie that confuses simplicity with simple-mindedness and that makes saintliness look like an extreme form of Asian flu. May 9, 2005
Zeffirelli has made a big, absurd doodad, a movie that confuses simplicity with simple-mindedness and that makes saintliness look like an extreme form of Asian flu.
Vincent Canby
Brother Sun, Sister Moon is a big, limp Valentine of a movie, filled with an excess of sweetness and light. What a shame. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Brother Sun, Sister Moon is a big, limp Valentine of a movie, filled with an excess of sweetness and light. What a shame.
Roger Ebert
Faulkner, a winsome newcomer who could probably have been much happier as one of the Monkees, presents the young Francis as a sort of super-straight who returns home from the horrors of the Crusades a disillusioned anti-establishmentarian seeking answers. Mar 22, 2018 | Full Review…
Faulkner, a winsome newcomer who could probably have been much happier as one of the Monkees, presents the young Francis as a sort of super-straight who returns home from the horrors of the Crusades a disillusioned anti-establishmentarian seeking answers.
Robert Mazzocco
Avoid this insipid rendering of the early life of St Francis of Assisi. Mar 11, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Avoid this insipid rendering of the early life of St Francis of Assisi.
Adrian Turner
A pretentious bore. Mar 11, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
A pretentious bore.
Extraordinarily, Zeffirelli has made a beautiful and simple film. Mar 11, 2015 | Full Review…
Extraordinarily, Zeffirelli has made a beautiful and simple film.
Clancy Sigel
In Zeffirelli's visually beautiful tale, the hero is perceived as a prototype hippie, and so the music is by Donovan. Aug 21, 2012 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
In Zeffirelli's visually beautiful tale, the hero is perceived as a prototype hippie, and so the music is by Donovan.
Emanuel Levy
Way overwrought Zeffirelli work, pretty much lost since its debut in 1973. Nov 1, 2008 | Rating: 2/5
Way overwrought Zeffirelli work, pretty much lost since its debut in 1973.
Steve Crum
Well meaning (hey, it's about a saint!) but ultimately deeply flawed telling of St.Francis done up as a 60's counterculture agent provacateur. Only missing, hey wait, it's here too, a Donovon soundtrack. Peace. love. flowers and God, man. And uber long, too. A great sleep aid.
Super Reviewer
Stunning visual metaphors, more a poem than a biography, succeeding brilliantly in juxtaposing symbols of worldly riches with those of spiritual riches. Graham Faulkner is convincing with Alec Guinness superb.
This is the MOST aesthetically beautiful movie I've EVER seen from the scenery shots to the actors -- Zeffierelli's FINEST -- Even better than Romeo and Juliet which came out immediately before this -- Alec Guiness turns in a WONDERFUL Pope and the other acting is stupendous -- The music was done by Donovan -- People my age will remember him from the 60's and 70's -- I just can't say enough good about this movie!
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