Arabella Byrne

The disturbing story of Emanuela Orlandi isn’t helped by Netflix sensationalism

the vatican is not unfamiliar with the mystery of an empty tomb. sadly, in the case of emanuela orlandi, the mystery remains unsolved. on 22...

Off the Beton track: Confession reviewed

Arabella Byrne finds Confession to be something of a penance, and longs for a more compelling treatment of the nuances and challenges of the seal
confession (2022) should work. it has a reasonable director, david beton (the hatton garden job), and a decent cast: colm meaney and stephen...

O brother, where art thou?

Despite its sexual violence, confused plot and distorted Catholic iconography, Arabella Byrne still admires Abel Ferrara’s latest film ‘Zeros and Ones’
i like abel ferrara. this is a pedestrian way to start a review, but given how much the bronx-born director divides opinion, it is germane t...

A readable yarn but none too credible

matrix by lauren groff  william heinemann, £16.99, 272 pages __________ the 12th-century poet we know as marie de france was, scholars ...

Breaking the habit

<I>Arabella Byrne</I> reviews <I>Rebel Hearts</I>
mainstream understanding of wayward nuns is often drawn from the sound of music (1965). maria von trapp’s inability to stick to the script w...

Believing in Miracles

This film is based on the life of Sister Lucia, a Portuguese nun who claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary in a field in Fatima, Portugal in 1917.
graham greene once remarked that the biggest problem of our age lies in the fact that we have lost the ability to believe in miracles and th...

Arabella Byrne reviews Benediction (2021)

The latest biopic about Siegfried Sassoon comes with complications, writes Arabella Byrne
siegfried sassoon – war hero, conscientious objector, pacifist, homosexual and, latterly, catholic – has long been a rich seam to filmmakers...

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