The Courage to Love

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Actually Much Better then Expected.......2006-12-21

This is a wonderful movie certainly not the best that i have ever watched but it was much better then expected and overall entertaining. It is certainly worth watching and Venessa does a very fine acting job in this. I would grade it a A- Worth buying

This Movie Doesn't Keep It Real.......2006-06-29

I saw this on TV last month and I thought it was lame. Everyone in the movie was goodlooking and the time period portrayed was romanticized big time. Keep it real. That wasn't how it truely was back in the day.

Courage to Love worth watching.......2005-07-13

Courage to love provides a fascinating insight to a little known period in Louisiana's history. A period when free women of colour were groomed by their mothers for the sole purpose of finding a rich man to take care of them- though due to Louisiana law, were unable to marry. Venessa Williams gives a good performance as a "gens de colour." I highly recommend.

This is the first movie that try to tell the story of a.......2005-01-10

very attractive and talented Creole woman named Henriette Delille, who chose the rigors of convent life over a very comfortable placage with a wealthy white benefactor who could gave her the world if she wants it. She saw the evil in placage and didn't want any part of it because it would be against God's law against living in sin. She seen it firsthand with her parents. Her father wanted out of it so he could marry a white woman in order to have legitimate offspring while her mother slowly goes insane not only of her lover's abandonment but also of her daughter's refusal to follow her footsteps in taking a white lover without being married.

All her life, Henriette deLille devoted her life to helping the poor and enslaved of Louisiana, even going against the authorities to do so. It's not an easy life to live but it's a purposeful one. One that emphasize a life of service and devotion to spiritual matters.

Vanessa L. Williams has done a great job in portraying Henriette Delille.

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Courage to Love

Manufacturer: Screen Media Ventures
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interesting to watch

...And Give My Love to the Swallows
Director: Jaromil Jires
Manufacturer: Facets
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0009OUBLU
Release Date: 2005-07-26

Description

Acclaimed Czech New Wave filmmaker Jaromil Jires directs the true story of Maruska Kuderikova, a young Moravian girl who was part of the Czech Resistance during World War II and arrested by the Nazis for her resistance work. She chronicles her experience as a prisoner in her diary, which Jires transforms into an uplifting tale of sacrifice for the sake of a better life and future.

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interesting to watch.......2006-12-23

A little confusing with snipits that don't really make that much sense. Read the synopsis first to get what this movie is about. A good period movie which tells the true story about a Czech girl who fought for the resistance.

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