[BAND OF SISTERS
screens Friday July 12th at 6:30 pm and Saturday July 13th at 1:30 pm
at the Cleveland Museum of Art Gartner Auditorium.]
Review
by Bob Ignizio
If the movies are to be believed,
Catholic nuns essentially come in three varieties: mean school
teachers, genial comic relief foils for Whoopi Goldberg, and sinful
sex maniacs in seventies “nunsploitation” films. Whichever sort
of nun film you happen to be watching, the sisters will all, of
course, wear the traditional nun's habit. Any resemblance to persons
living or dead is purely coincidental, and extremely unlikely.
To get a better idea of what at least
some nuns are like, avail yourself of the opportunity to see BAND
OF SISTERS, a documentary film
from director Mary Fishman that sheds light on a decidedly more
liberal side of the Catholic Church than I imagine most viewers would
be used to seeing. And outside of a few archival photos and paintings
from the distand, pre-Vatican II past, there's nary a wimple in
sight.
