Stunning Performance By A Brilliant Actress

Raised Roman Catholic, I was not permitted to view this film as a child, due to it's controversy. In my 30's I finally got to view the film. I was long before then an Audrey Hepburn fan. The first Hepburn film I saw was Breakfast at Tiffany's. Since then I have viewed many more Hepburn films. The Nun's Story, however, is unquestionably in my view Hepburn's best if not also most challenging performance. The saddest part of the film, I thought, was when Sister Luke reads the letter in her cell that her Father had been ambushed by the Germans when he attempted to deliver medical aid. Some think it was at the end when she leaves the Monastery, but I cannot fathom that. She was, after all, miserable. At the very end of the film when she walks down the street Zimmerman had wanted to place in the background a choir singing. The Vatican wasn't doing backflips over that one, folks, and they ended in silence where we hear only her footsteps up until the last minute - a much stronger ending, I felt.