Mother Cabrini, one of the most powerful, influential and inspirational women who ever lived, has always been one about whom much is guessed and almost nothing is known. Now, with the meticulously researched and unavoidably mesmerizing film biography Cabrini, we get a sprawling work that fits together pieces of the jigsaw that was the life of the dirt-poor Italian immigrant who bucked unbelievable odds to become the first American saint in history, worshiped to this day as the Patron Saint of Immigrants. I’m neither Italian nor Catholic, but I was glued to this massive achievement with unwavering fascination, finding it thoroughly and emotionally captivating.

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CABRINI ★★★(3.5/4 stars)
Directed by: Alejandro Monteverde
Written by: Rod Barr
Starring: Cristiana Dell’Anna, Giancarlo Gianinni, David Morse, John Lithgow
Running time: 145 mins.

Between 1889 and 1910, more than two million Italian immigrants flooded the........

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