SearchHail Mary24th October 2006 Recommended  THE MOVIE:
At that time... Jean-Luc Godards Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie) apparently sparked off a hailstorm of controversy on its release in 1985, something that the folks at New Yorker Video hammer home on the DVD sleeve at every opportunity. Maybe Im just jaded or too hard to shock, but its hard to see now what all the fuss was over. I dont see much to be scandalized about in Hail Mary. Really, Godard has composed one of the most human and touching portrayals of the Virgin Mary ever put to film. In his recasting of the Biblical story, Mary (Myriem Roussel, First Name: Carmen) is a teenager who has hung on to her virginity, even in the face to her engagement to the petulant taxi cab driver Joseph (Thierry Rode). Thus, it caus...Read the entire review This article is courtesy of DVD Talk DVD Reviews 
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