The Song Of Bernadette (Eureka Classics) Blu

I have watched this film many, many times since childhood and it’s one of the most moving films I’ve ever seen. The film begins with the life of St. Bernadette as a young schoolgirl who misses much of her education and is shown to be behind even in her religious studies. This is a very important thing to remember, because later in the film after St. Bernadette had been having apparitions of Our Lady, the local priest tells St. Bernadette to ask the lady who she is. St. Bernadette does this and tells the priest, the lady says she is “the immaculate conception”. This is vitally important as even today, people still make the mistake of thinking Jesus is the Immaculate Conception, when Jesus is God who became Man but Mary is the only human ever born without the stain of original sin, and as such is the ‘immaculate conception’. This film somehow captures the simplicity and beauty of the story of Lourdes. St. Bernadette was a humble girl born into a simple and humble family who was called on by the Blessed Virgin to dig in the ground to find the spring and to build a church on the site. St. Bernadette was laughed at by her community but through her family’s love and support she continued to honour our Holy Mother and Miracles began to occur. The film ends with St Bernadette’s retreat into a convent where she worked and prayed alongside her fellow Sisters, leaving the attention of the outside world behind and eventually passing away at age 35. Jennifer Jones is magnificent as St. Bernadette, capturing her innocence, humanity and devotion. The supporting cast including Charles Bickford and Vincent Price are wonderful and altogether it’s a moving and factual account on one of the more recent and biggest miraculous events of our times. As the film says at the beginning, for those who have Faith, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, no explanation is possible.

What a great film. Though in black and white it still tells a good story. Shame everyone thought the poor girl was a liar and didn't believe her until she died suffering from TB and a leg tumour. Very sad. Also a shame though supposed to be set in Lourdes France everyone spoke with American accents. Except for the evil nun who made Bernadettes life a misery. She was English.

I watched this lovely film when I was at school and it made a great impression on me. So now I run a film club and bought it for them ( and of course myself when I wanted to see it again!) and my audience, who come from a different age really loved it too and started asking for more the same, so since then I have been trying to find something to satisfy. The Song of Bernadette is a great film and I can recommend it to anyone, young or old. It is entrancing.

I saw this film when I was a child at Convent school; it was both frightening and wonderful then, and still has the same mysterious power over one; Jennifer Jones is superb in the title role and look out for Gladys Cooper, cold and nasty as the cruel nun towards the end; in real life a great beauty and a nice woman. A youthful Vincent Price also stars along with other Hollywood Stalwarts of the 40s like J Lee Cobb. I already have my own copy but I bought this for someone who had just been to Lourdes and had a miracle of her own.

I remember watching this film when I was a teenager and have been looking for it for many years because I could not remember the title, I stumble upon the dvd by chance and bought it, hoping that it was the film that I watched many years ago. Totally over joyed to see that it was the film that I was looking for.Brilliant to watch, thoughtful, inspiring, spiritual film, my only black and white film.I hope to go to Lourdes in the near future/

This Blu Ray transfer of "The Song of Bernadette" ( Eureka) looks much superior than the American "Twilight Time" Release of same.

I watched this movie with two other friends (one Catholic, one Evangelical). They both loved it totally! Beautifully shot. Acting of the heroine was superb. Displayed the innocence of St Bernadette very clearly. Would recommend everyone watch it even if you don't have a religious faith. It explores topics on what faith is and how it works in a sense too.

Many people know of Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes but many others do not. She was born to an impoverished miller in 1844 in an obscure village in the Pyrenees in South West France. As was common at the time she was illiterate. One day, when she was 14 when out gathering driftwood for fuel on the banks of the local river, an apparition of a lady appeared to her. Later the lady identified herself in the patois of Lourdes as the 'Immaculate Conception' which the local clergy identified as Mary, the Mother of God. The lady ordered a shrine to be built where people could come on pilgrimages.What was inexplicable was that there was nothing in Bernadette's life to explain the visions which were received with much local scepticism.Eventually the shrine was built, people did come, and it is now one of the most important Catholic pilgrimages in the whole world. A great many Catholics wish to visit Lourdes and bathe in the waters at least one in their lives. Many Catholic girls are now called Bernadette.Bernadette, always a sickly child, entered a convent and devoted her life to prayer and light duties in her convent. The visions ceased and were never repeated. She succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 35. After he death devotion grew to her and she proved a popular saint. She was officially canonized as a saint in 1933.The film based on her life was a huge box office success. The DVD version is recommended to all the family, especially those families with children.