{"id":11865,"date":"2018-12-08T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=11865"},"modified":"2018-12-08T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:07:22","slug":"is-the-best-catholic-horror-movie-of-2018-the-song-of-bernadette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2018\/12\/is-the-best-catholic-horror-movie-of-2018-the-song-of-bernadette.html","title":{"rendered":"Is the Best Catholic Horror Movie of 2018… “The Song of Bernadette”?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I ask the hard questions, at America<\/em>:<\/p>\n

At first glance, \u201cThe Song of Bernadette\u201d seems as wholesome\u2014and as outdated\u2014as the clink of the morning milk delivery. It\u2019s filmed in black and white, its score is plangent and heavy on the strings, and Jennifer Jones plays the saint at its center with a sweetness and softness that played big to wartime audiences but which, to me, is a little too spun-sugar. It was a huge hit at the box office and won four Oscars, which might make it a classic or might just make it a time capsule. The final frame even includes an advertisement: Buy war bonds!<\/p>\n

But this fictionalized story of Bernadette Soubirous, a French peasant girl who claims she sees a mysterious \u201cLady\u201d in a secluded part of the city dump, follows a classic horror-film structure in order to make a theological point that could not be more urgent and contemporary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I ask the hard questions, at America: At first glance, \u201cThe Song of Bernadette\u201d seems as wholesome\u2014and as outdated\u2014as the clink of the morning milk delivery. It\u2019s filmed in black and white, its score is plangent and heavy on the strings, and Jennifer Jones plays the saint at its center with a sweetness and softness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[202,119,34,69,113],"class_list":["post-11865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-et-exaltavit-humiles","tag-horror","tag-humiliation","tag-weird-saints","tag-woman-is-the-irony-of-the-community"],"yoast_head":"\nIs the Best Catholic Horror Movie of 2018... 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