That is the dilemma we witness here in this film through the life of a well-meaning and sweet-as-can-be Belgian lady: 'Gabrielle van der Mal' who is renamed 'Sister Luke' after completing her training as a nun in the 1930s. It is a noble pursuit, but an exercise in futility that can lead to utter frustration. It's so well done, in all phases, that when the two-and-a-half hours are up, you just marvel and what you've witnessed.Īnyone who has tried to live a perfect life, to please God and never offend Him with sins of any nature, knows it is impossible. This is really a quality film, as those who have seen it for years, will attest. I was amazed how a long, fairly slow film like this could capture and keep my attention all the way through.but it did. Reviewed by ccthemovieman-1 9 / 10 A Very High-Quality Film Sister Luke finally decides to leave the religious life since she is unable to feel neutral against the invaders of her country. Years later she is ordered to return to Belgium, and when her motherland is invaded by the Germans, she learns that her beloved father was murdered by the enemy while he was helping wounded members of the resistance. Fortunati miraculously heals her tuberculosis.

Sister Luke proves to be a very efficient nurse and assistant, and Dr.

After a long stint working in a mental institution, Gaby/Sister Luke is finally assigned to go to the Congo, where she works with cynical but brilliant atheist Dr. She says good-bye to her sisters Louise and Marie, her brother Pierre, and her beloved father and subjects herself to the stringent rules of the retrograde institution, including interior silence and excessive humility and humiliation. Hubert van der Mal, decides to leave her upper-class family to enter a convent, expecting to work as nun in the Congo with tropical diseases. In 1930 Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal, stubborn daughter of prominent surgeon Dr.

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