Product Details

• Actors: Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Carolina Freschi, Maria Cristina Minerva, Sonia Gessner
• Directors: Giuseppe Piccioni
• Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Italian
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Accent Cinema
• VHS Release Date: February 4, 2003
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00007ELHY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #495,954 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Warm, human, real -- all that is best about Italian film!!!, April 29, 2003

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mintonmedia "writer/producer/opinionated jerk" (Beverly Hills, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Not of This World (DVD)

Had I known beforehand that this was a film about a nun who finds a baby in a park, I probably would have avoided it like the plague. Yet, from this premise that promises only the worst kind of sentimentality comes the best film I've seen in years. There is sentiment, to be sure, but it is earned -- superbly so -- by the honesty and intelligence of the performances, script and direction.

This film lets us spend time with ordinary, unforgettable people facing the simple, terrible problems of everyday life, first alone, and then together. It shows us that even those who think they are "not of this world" are bound to it by the humanity we share. It will make you smile in recognition and, I dare say, sniffle a bit as well.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Realistic View of Nuns, July 4, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Not of This World (DVD)

Like _The Brides of Christ_, this film gives a beautifully realistic portrayal of nuns in times of changee and crisis. The story of a middle-aged nun, and the heartache she goes through as she tries to decide when, upon finding a child, whether she has truly made the decision to forsake all earthly things in joining the convent. Without being sentimental or preachy, this film considered some of the things a man or woman who enters the church has given up, and what he/she gains by it also.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars suprisingly great, May 7, 2003

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"myke1979" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Not of This World (DVD)

This is one of those films that you watch because someone else wants to see it, but you're not sure you're going to like it. Well I ended up loving this story. This is an exceptionally well-made film that is a remarkable meditation on the nature of human loneliness and love. Highly recommended.