Song of Bernadette

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Song of Bernadette
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DVD Details

  • Commentary
  • A&E "Biography" - "Jennifer Jones: Portrait Of A Lady"
  • Newsreel
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 36 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 3, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1943
  • Label: 20th Century Fox

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1943 - Best Actress: Jennifer Jones
Academy Awards 1943 - Best Black-and-White Interior Decoration: James Basevi & Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1943 - Best Cinematography: Arthur Miller
Academy Awards 1943 - Best Original Score: Alfred Newman

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User Ratings: 3,254
A beautifully told tale of a girl whose quiet devotion and determination shines through. Full Review
Backseat Mafia
Apr 15, 2019
The Song of Bernadette is not a great film, but it is a very good film. It is characteristic of the kind of earnest prestige or super-spectacle picture that was always a stumbling block for an art form built on commerce and exploitation, but it is Full Review
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Jul 9, 2003
The theology in The Song of Bernadette is subtle; it satirizes Catholic worship of suffering... Full Review
America Magazine
Dec 12, 2018
Rating: B -- Jennifer Jones won the Best Actress Oscar for this stodgy spiritual biopic of the French girl who saw visions of Virgin Mary in 19th century France. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Mar 19, 2011
Rating: 3/5 -- Over-produced, quasi-religious historical drama.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nov 24, 2003
The dialogue is impeccable, full of dignity and emotional and dramatic strength. [Full review in Spanish] Full Review
Cine-Mundial
Sep 13, 2019
Rating: 2/4 -- If your spiritual tuning fork doesn't already hum to The Song of Bernadette's sentimental religiosity, this is an overlong (156 minutes), overpious, and often kitschy hagiography. Full Review
DVDJournal.com
Apr 5, 2006

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Jennifer Jones won the Academy Award for her screen debut in this heartening film about a young girl whose wondrous visions inspired a nation. The film also won Oscars in 1943 for Best Cinematography, Music (Scoring) and Art Direction/Interior Decoration.

Bernadette Soubirous (Jones) is a sickly 14-year-old girl who sees a vision of a "beautiful lady," and never suffers from her illness again. Moreover, a fountain suddenly materializes near her vision that seems to heal visitors who bathe in it. Unspoiled by her apparent gift, Bernadette nonetheless suffers the prejudices of those around her in this extraordinary, inspiring film that also stars Vincent Price, Charles Bickford and Lee J. Cobb.

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Jennifer Jones won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her screen debut in this true story. Jones plays young French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous, who sees a vision of a "beautiful lady" near her home in Lourdes in 1858. Based on the novel of the same name by Franz Werfel, THE SONG OF BERNADETTE explores Bernadette's trials and tribulations from her impoverished family to her difficulties at school to the derision her visions bring upon her and at last to her affliction with bone-marrow cancer. Under the incisive eye of director Henry King, the film is seen through Bernadette's perspective but at the same time focuses upon the effect that Bernadette has upon her family, her champions, and her detractors. The acting is excellent, and no detail has gone untouched in the art direction, costumes, and cinematography. Best of all, THE SONG OF BERNADETTE stands among a rare group of Hollywood films in which visual integrity is matched step for step with thematic zeal.

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  • Sales Rank: 28,566
  • UPC: 024543075677
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