A Nun's Story

[ihatehaters73]

Me in my school Sisters say bad words in the phillipinnes they use words to destroy us they are liars

[swanstep]

Man, one forgets how intense and beautiful the score is in this scene! Movies very rarely use music in this intimate, underlining way anymore - a huge loss in my view.

[Goethewrote]

@swanstep just like your mom eating my asshole. A huge loss. Turd.

[JazzKeyboardist1]

Audrey, blow your raspberry like bedazzled's dudly moore

[AlexandreFilho1705]

Even bald, Audrey Hepburn would be the most beautiful woman ever.

[stalkermonolith]

Kill the fuckin' psycho chick, playing with that fuckin' scissor!

[EpicBlueSpikes]

i adore my hair its down to my knees thank god im not religous lol

[soragirl6]

@EpicBlueSpikes yeah it takes a very sacrificial person to do this. I'll say.

[lora3650]

Ha-ha-ha

[blossomblizzard]

What movie is this?

[franmon88]

i was very disappointed with the end of this movie. I think the end is an attack to the Catholic Faith

[iwantwatermellon]

Lol why is she always getting her hair cut in movies? She is so beautiful :) When I saw the white headdress thing that goes under the habit, I thought "Wow. If I wore that, it would give me some serious forehead acne."

[popazz1]

A beautiful film,seen it a number of times.But,as a child in school,I never thought the school head-teacher,Sr Mary Baptist,was a 'beautiful' person.She was evil personified!

[johhnwaltersugg]

EVIL PEOP;E

[missseraphimarose]

Orthodox nuns do not cut their hair. It's the opposite. They think long hair is a sign you have given up vanity.

[soragirl6]

@missseraphimarose So only Dominican nuns cut their hair? Or am Ii saying this right. I'm confused. Excuse my ignorance. I just wanted to know which nuns cut their hair and which ones don't.

[jeepjeeplady]

Hollywood actually portrayed it well if you see the whole movie.... the famous Actress Dolores Hart (who starred with and kissed Elvis) rejected them and became a nun...

If any good hollywood persons hear this PLEASE make a respectable movie of her life!!!

[xxxLotBotxxx]

And she still looks beautiful <3

[AllHailEmily]

I don`t understand why a nun has to cut the hair and why do they have to cut the hair?! Can`t they have a professional cut the hair, because the nun has to look at that everyday to take showers! I`m confused!

[thecommentmonster]

@AllHailEmily it's all about dying to self and rising in Christ. the sisters are freed from concerns regarding their physical appearance--they know their worth comes from being a Child of God.

[locigallady]

i wish i cut be at her please and give myself to Jesus

[zimnaya]

Intensely moving to see a young person dedicating herself to Christ as a Dominican nun. Obscene to see the photographer intruding so continually in this ceremony. Thomas Merton once said that there nothing so inane a seeing a monk with a camera. The photographer manages to remind us of the utter banality of the captured moment when what is happening is on the eternal plane

[Zathinean]

@zimnaya it's a movie.... Helloooo!

[zimnaya]

@Zathinean Helloooo yourself! Of course 'A Nun's Story is a film/movie. The clip of a Dominican nun taking her vows with the photographer lying on the floor and in every other position was ridiculous and ruined the solemnity of the moment. Much the same as when photographers and video-makers become intrusive at wedding ceremonies. One has to ask oneself whether the ceremony is being staged in order to be photographed or because a woman is becoming a nun!

[package919]

horrible

[lray1948]

Audrey wonthe New York Film Critics Best Actress award for this. It was her 2nd. First was Roman Holiday

[PecanSandy309]

They shouldn't have cut off her hair! God said that it shames a woman who cuts their hair short!

[Ichliebemusikundybd]

@PecanSandy309 Hey sheep you know what else god said? To suck his dick, are you going to suck it? If you don't you go to hell, ya that's right god has a plan for all heterosexual men, and that's to SUCK his gay dick! I'm just kidding, but honestly some of you religious people do have the intellect of a pea, there's nothing wrong with women cutting their hair short, grow a brain sheep!

[PecanSandy309]

@Ichliebemusikundybd I used to be Atheist. That's just my opinion. You'd think you'd agree with me on this. Hello! She's cutting off her hair to be 're-newed'!! There's no point in doing that when you're a nun.

Mind your own business while you're at it!

[ned262626]

@PecanSandy309 i dont know about all of the reasons, but nuns have to cut their hair off so their hats fit. it is functional

[spiderorchid81]

@ned262626 As far as I know they have to cut their hair because they have to give up all vanity. Long hair traditionally stands for beauty and sex appeal - in consequence, nuns cut their hair short (not only in Christian culture). The whole dress is designed to make personal beauty etc. disappear, because it was thought that a woman serving God shouldn't think anymore about her appearance.

[ned262626]

@Ichliebemusikundybd religious people are pea brained but also brilliant, like atheists/agnostics!

[ned262626]

@PecanSandy309 he also said that their heads must be covered. so maybe it doesn't matter if their hair is short if its covered ? besides, what ever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. the church has power. if it says a woman under special circumstances can cut her hair than she can.

do women in your protestant church wear hats to your ceremony's like the bible says they must?

[ragingmouse]

Leanneroyo: There was a time when noviciates cut their hair for two reasons. A - the habits they wore fit better but B - for monastic reasons it was a sign of not only devotion but also a sign of their losing who they were, and becoming one of the nuns, who all looked the same in a nut shell .. hope this helps

[ToughXArmy69]

Ms Hepburn grand star of the movies was noted for her performances in Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany's however to me her greatest performance was as Sister Luke in this memorable movie Fred Zinneman directed fautlessly. Jack Benny who was Jewish wrote a letter to Jack Warner, also Jewish, complimenting WB for making this masterpiece.  Ms. Hepburn was nominated but lost to Simone Signoret for Room At The Top. Today seen as an error. Ms Hepburn was that years best actress.

[ajways1]

sad very sad

[Highperformance91]

idiots

[skanemermaid]

I found this scene intensely erotic when I first saw it.

[djdhiraj1]

Same with me...has always been a mystery to me. Brilliant scene, fabulously portrayed.

[Sandrobulow]

@skanemermaid You must have your cables crossed to find this scene erotic. It is a very powerful scene when a nun rejects the world to be come the bride of Christ. 

[skanemermaid]

@Sandrobulow

Check out "Decadence and Catholicism" by Ellis Hanson on the subject. It might require more attention span than you possess, however, in your oogling of the pseudo-spirituality of a Hollywood movie.

[theboombody]

I wonder if we'll have hair in heaven.

[alphasquadxxx]

she's hot... why did she do that? now i hate nuns... priests are better.

[ToughXArmy69]

In my opinion Miss Hepburn's finest performance. The Nuns Story brilliantly directed by Fred Zinneman was produced by Jack L. Warner for Warner Bros. A Major hit and Miss Hepburn nominated, but lost to Simone Singoret.

[hotwok19]

I could not agree more with you!. If you are a non-beleiver, such as myself, then a story about nuns hardly sounds a plot premise for a good movie. In fact, it was an outstanding movie with a great story beautifully told. As you say, Fred Zinneman's direction was brilliant & Audrey Hepburn was superlative as Sister Luke, especially later in the film when she is movingly torn by self-doubt about her calling. Franz Waxman composed the musical score for the film which was also brilliant!.

[yourstrulyloved]

Nooo!

[GilChrist77]

I can't wait for this day! I'm hoping to enter the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in August.

[ChimericalSituation]

Oh! That's beautiful! I will pray for you, I hope the best!

[Tpal91]

why in august? not earlier?

i wish you to be very happy with the dominican sisters

[GilChrist77]

Because they have their postulants enter as a group on August 28th which is the feast day of Saint Augustine.

Thank you very much for the well wishes.

JMJ+

~Betsy

Totus tuus Maria!

[zederish]

@GilChrist77 haleluja

[FallaNight]

@GilChrist77

Me neither.. =) i hoping to enter the sisters of the visitation of Mary <3 cant wait.. seven more months to go.. =D

[SacrificeOfLove1]

@GilChrist77 I went on a come-and-see to visit the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist last year. They're beautiful. :)

[HeartzWAY17]

@GilChrist77 ... GOD BLESS YOU With Light, ONE LOVE, Peace, Joy and Much Blessings In Your New Life !!!

[soragirl6]

@GilChrist77 I'm a Jehovah's Witness, but I always found nun hood interesting. Our religion likes to study other religions better so we can come to an understanding and talk to ones that are apart of this religion. This movie was really interesting for me, even though I would like to meet a real nun in person. :)

[MsColdCanada]

@soragirl6 Shouldn't be hard to do. Just look for some Sisters in the closest reasonable size city. There are usually some everywhere. I'm sure that they would be happy to speak to you.

[Carl6231]

This movie was one of Audrey's most serious acting of her entire career. It's too bad she didn't win an Oscar for it because she certainly deserved it.

[letthemxeatcake]

In the beginning, were they all getting married to Christ?

[GilChrist77]

Yup!

JMJ+

[Hosea22]

Technically, a convent is any home of a community of sisters - or, indeed, of priests and brothers, though this term is rarely used in the U.S. The term "monastery" is often used by communities within the Benedictine family, and "convent" (when referring to a cloister) is often used of the monasteries of certain other orders.

[Hosea22]

A nun who is elected to head her monastery is termed an abbess if the monastery is an abbey, a prioress if it is a priory, or more generically may be referred to as the Mother Superior and styled "Reverend Mother". The distinction between abbey and priory has to do with the terms used by a particular order or by the level of independence of the monastery.

[Hosea22]

A canoness is a nun who corresponds to the male equivalent, a canon. The origin and rules of monastic life are common to both. As with the canons, differences in the observance of rule gave rise to two types: canons regular and secular canons.

[Hosea22]

For instance, the Maryknoll Order includes a monastery of cloistered nuns who pray for the work of the missionary priests, brothers and religious sisters; the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master are cloistered nuns who pray in support of the religious sisters of the Daughters of Saint Paul in their media ministry; the Dominican nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx, N.Y., pray in support of the priests of the Archdiocese of New York.

[Hosea22]

They sometimes undertake contemplative ministries - that is, a monastery of nuns is often associated with prayer for some particular good or supporting the missions of another order by prayer.

[Hosea22]

They are usually self-sufficient, earning money by selling jams or candies or baked goods by mail order, or by making liturgical items (vestments, candles, bread for Holy Communion).

[Hosea22]

In general, when a woman enters a convent she first undergoes an initial period of testing the life, known as postulancy, for a period of six months to a year. If she, and the order, determine that she may have a vocation to the life, she receives the habit of the order (usually with some modification to distinguish her from professed nuns) and undertakes the novitiate, a period of living the life of a nun without yet taking vows that lasts one to two years.

[Hosea22]

In the Roman Catholic tradition, there are a number of different orders of nuns each with its own charism or special character.

[Hosea22]

In Roman Catholicism, a nun is a female monastic who has taken solemn vows (the male equivalent is a "monk"). Nuns are cloistered to the degree established by the rule of the religious institution they enter.

[leanneroyo]

why is audrey always getting her hair cut in movies...? like roman holiday? she looks amazing with long hair.. but i guess her short hair is signiture.

[djdhiraj1]

There was one more movie that Audrey had cut her hair in, but I cant remember it. Though she is one of the rare females, who suits every hairstyle.

[joeygsmom]

Audrey is so vulnerable in her films I just want to give her a hug!

RIP my dear girl...

[steflondon88]

Roman Holiday is where she cuts her hair.

[ra86226]

@djdhiraj1 She rarely wore her hair down when it was long. It was always up with the possible exception of Paris When it Sizzles. Half up half down at one point. So her hair was always short more or less, cause it was either cut that way, or because it was always up in a twist or bun.

[ColdCaseSweetHeart]

Yeah she always has her hair cut! although she looks beautiful either way.

[loge10]

@leanneroyo She looks beautiful with any hair cut--long or short. I actually like her with the short hair (like in Roman Holiday).

[soragirl6]

@leanneroyo Maybe because her real hair is short lol I don't know. I iked her long hair too. But at least the short hair fits her face. Short hair doesn't fit everyone's face :P

[djdhiraj1]

What is S & M?

[skanemermaid]

When I was a young girl, first watching this scene, I had an odd mixture of shame/excitement watching it. I credit Hepburn for making me realise I was into S&M.

[cutcut1991]

I just LOVE that sound of hair getting cut.

[rosie71350]

I love this movie

[havaneezer]

I think i heard they're making a remake of this movie. Im not sure who is in it.

[jarvisel]

All the nuns I knew had short hair, but it always looked "together."

[cholitochingon]

I am a Catholic Priest. Nun's still have their hair cut quite short as a symbol of abandoning worldly vanity. And of course weighted down with coif, headbands and topped with veil and pins, it is much more practical. Look up the Poor Clare Nuns or even the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville with a more modified habit.

[djdhiraj1]

Thanks for the information..

[ra86226]

@cholitochingon My mother can still spot a nun even though 99% don't wear habits anymore.  She had the Ursulines as a child. Now you don't even know what order they belong to anymore.

[hotc6000]

Well now you know when you want your hair trimmed DON'T go to a nun.

She might cut it all off! hahaha.

[sharki369]

WHWERE IS THE MOVIE

[coffeecub]

this ceremony happened with this particular order. different orders have their own type of rules they follow. some do, some don't. in any case, audrey hepburn looks beautiful either way. i don't think there is much that could make her ugly.

[tootlesSB]

so true.

she cut her hair in other movies to, and looked fabulous.

roman holiday, anyone?

[jsa4053]

I think nuns should be able to keep the hair that god gave them rather than give it up becuase it would make them vain.

[Imran500]

Is she a method actress?

[artictactic]

Nope, she wasn't.

[artictactic]

Nope, she wasn't.

[Mimameior]

Such a beautiful movie, one of Hepburn's best - wish it was more widely available.

[evilstlyist]

she looked hot at :51

[djdhiraj1]

I thought the same.

[ThePhrozenPhoenix]

Has anybody noticed that Audrey gets her long hair cut short in like every one of her movies? As great an actress as she was, did she have some sort of fetish with cutting her hair?

[djdhiraj1]

I just knew her doing so only in A Roman Holiday and A Nun' Story. Do you know any other?

[ThePhrozenPhoenix]

Besides those, "Two for the Road," and "Breakfast at Tiffanys." Maybe more, too.

[basser1984]

Sabrina

[basser1984]

Yes cuz she looks so dang good with it short. You blame her?

[djdhiraj1]

I think she looks good in any haircut, possible.

[thethespian12]

I think it's so you don't get attached to superficial things like vanity. or so that little hat thing will fit lol

[luvkat95]

omg do u really have 2 cut ur hair 2 b a nun cuz i want 2 b a nun and i have super long hair. I love my long hair no 1 is gonna come near it with scissors!

[djdhiraj1]

I think this was a old tradition and depends on typ of christianity...dont think it happens anymore.

[Serenityraye1]

The reason you must cut your hair is that long hair encourages vanity which is something one must overcome in religious life.

[saskurauchiruno]

i don't think so because i know a nun and she told me that she never cut her hair before and its really really really long...