Cabrini

The cinematography in this is gorgeous by a photog who’s shot other “faith-based” films. The “faith based” marketing of this movie feels incongruous, since the story involved helping impoverished refugees and orphans, something the evangelicals are completely opposed to. It’s a highly stylized true story, and plays more like a Dickens/”Oliver Twist” heartwarming tragedy than a docudrama. It would have been a LOT better if it didn’t have 20 minutes of terrible faith-based previews before it. It’s well-meaning, but impossible to market, and cynically speaking, that’s the purpose of the faith-based movies – marketing. Church for sale.