Alejandro Monteverde
Cabrini
7.3 
5.1After witnessing disease and poverty in the slums of New York, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini embarks on a daring journey to persuade the hostile mayor to provide housing and healthcare for hundreds of orphaned children.
- Director: Alejandro Monteverde
- Main Cast: John Lithgow, David Morse, Giancarlo Giannini, Cristiana Dell'Anna
- Soundtrack: Gene Back
- Cinematography: Gorka Gómez Andreu
Cinema Premiere: March 8, 2024
English Reviews
7 english reviews of Cabrini (2024)
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7.5 / 10
"Cabrini" is in no way a perfect movie, but a damn dignified one that honors the little-known efforts of these fearless women.
- Tomris Laffly -
7 / 10
The film, which feels overlong at 145 minutes, suffers both from repetition and an over-reliance on melodramatic plot devices. But it nonetheless delivers a compelling portrait of a heroine whose story is too little-known.
- Frank Scheck -
6 / 10
"Cabrini" depicted her earliest challenges and, in the end, audiences were left to imagine how she overcame even greater obstacles to achieve her mission of helping the world's poor. Cabrini's was a powerful story that deserved to be told, and even for those off-put by religion, its feminist depiction of a woman succeeding in a male-dominated world should be admired.
- Stephen Holland -
5 / 10
As a straightforward biopic of a woman whose name is much better known than her story, "Cabrini" fulfills its mission with the same purposeful earnestness of its subject. It’s a movie even the most secular of humanists can love.
- Ann Hornaday -
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1. Observer
At a time when movies exist in honor of the strangest oddballs everywhere, I can think of no one more worthy of a life-changing biopic. You can keep your Barbie. I’ll take Mother Cabrini.
- Rex Reed
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