Three Hard Sell Movies…
NetFlix keeps ‘em coming.
Who was I kidding thinking I could convince the boys to watch Therese? I think I prefer that old black and white French biopic that EWTN shows from time to time. Therese meant well, but something just didn’t click. I liked the poster, but the movie didn’t live up to it. (Some things bothered me a lot…there were outdoor scenes that struck me as way too derivative of Little House on the Prairie. I almost expected Michael Landon as Louis Martin. And there was a blanket the Martin family picnicked on that looked way too ‘American quilty.’)

Then there was Into Great Silence; exquisite, but best viewed as a sort of meditation. That I wanted to watch alone. Certain family members wouldn’t have lasted 5 minutes before the torrent of tics.

But the lives of the Trappists made Helvetica look like an action movie. A movie about a typeface? You bet. More fun than one might expect.