Press Release Warner Archive Collection Press Release: The Nun's Story (1959) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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[Jeff Fearnside]

My pre-order was in as soon as the link went live! It sounds like this will be a huge upgrade over my old DVD.

 

[DarkVader]

I love the artwork chosen for this release. It's beautiful. I haven't seen this film. I will rectify the oversight with this release. I've been reading a lot about the novel and the many hurdles faced in adapting it into a film.

 

[Douglas R]

I love the artwork chosen for this release. It's beautiful. I haven't seen this film. I will rectify the oversight with this release. I've been reading a lot about the novel and the many hurdles faced in adapting it into a film.

Yes, it’s excellent. I hadn’t seen that artwork before but I see it comes from the original French poster of the film.

 

[DarkVader]

Yes, it’s excellent. I hadn’t seen that artwork before but I see it comes from the original French poster of the film.

Thanks for the heads up. The French poster artwork is more pleasing to my eyes than the one used for the U.S. release.

The novel of "The Nun's Story" written by Katherine Hulme was based on Marie-Louise Habets a Belgian Nun who worked in the Belgian Congo from 1933-1939. She left the convent to join the fight against the Nazis 1944. Habets met Hulme in 1945. Hulme published The Nun's Story in 1956. From the time they met, they were together. In 1960 they moved to Kauai where they lived together until Hulmes death in in 1981. Habets died 5 years later in 1986.

Forgive my ignorance, was Habet and Hulme's partnership a romantic one or a platonic one?

 

[JPCinema]

Thanks for the heads up. The French poster artwork is more pleasing to my eyes than the one used for the U.S. release.

Forgive my ignorance, was Habet and Hulme's partnership a romantic one or a platonic one?

From what I've read, it was a guarded romantic one.