Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

eragonbookfan A film with some heart & charm to it; I am a Bible-believing Christian, who does believe in miracles, and do believe that Jesus Christ is God the Son, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of world. Redemption and salvation are free through Him, and He is the Creator of all things.However, Catholicism is NOT Christian! By any historical, biblical, or spiritual elements. You have, of course, in the story, a boy talking to an IDOL of Jesus... which comes alive. lol wut? The 2nd Commandments (which Catholic "churches" omit) states, "You shall not make any graven images (idols."I'd say this is no more than a touchy, good-feeling propaganda film to try to pull at your heart strings that'll convince you to join Catholicism, which is the Great Whore spoken about in Revelation 17. I love catholics but hate the false catholic teachings and beliefs that are contrary to the Word of G-d . Jesus did NOT establish the catholic organization. Catholicism is unbiblical, anti-biblical and anti-Christian. The early church as described in the New Testament did the following: shared all things in common, relationships, support missionaries/ministers, teaching & preaching, praying, worshiping, reading of scripture, evangelism, fostering spiritual gifts. Nowhere does the NT dictate fancy buildings, robes, repetitive prayer, a priesthood, Mary worship, worship of the dead, sectarianism, or any order of service, etc.. All these are MAN-MADE traditions ADDED ON. If i do not use any & all opportunities to point out the error of the catholic cult ( or Buddhist cult, Mormom cult, Hindu cult, Muslim cult, JW cult, etc. ) to you guys, then your blood is on my hands. Turn from the pope and instead trust Jesus ALONE. Catholicism is FAR from the "church" that Jesus founded which taught love and forgiveness, where as it teaches idolatry and superstition. Jesus founded His church on what Peter SAID: "the Christ, the Son of the Living G-d ".While the Catholic "church" was seeking to control the world through religion, true Christians were running for their lives from the Catholic holocaust that ran for centuries. The Catholic empire murdered and killed Christians (like 50 million) who had a Bible in their house during the Middle ages. Because the satanic inspired papacy did NOT want people to read it.The Catholic "church" is heterodox & corrupted by neo-Babylonian Semiramis paganism and is the Great Whore riding on the Beast of the book of Revelation. So yes there is a valid schism between Protestant Christians and the Roman Empire. The Empire is not following the Bible and has changed laws and times (the Sabbath) so I grant there is a schism.Catholicism was responsible for the Crusades, with a corrupt pope and the knights of templar, it was an illuminate organized war... The ppl had no say, they weren't Christians, just claimed they were. If they were real Christians they would have valued life & not slain a million non-combatants, I understand why you have these anti-Christian views, because so many evil doors have claimed to be Christians & raped the image of Christianity, it shouldn't be about religion like Catholicism, it should be about the Lord & His great works & Message."I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world."~ Charles Dickens3/10 for some heart, cute images, and pretty music. ‎

thereseorphin I have seen this beautiful movie when I was a child of 6 with my kindergarten class in my country of birth and I have never forgotten it. I am now in my fifties and live in another country and I still have such fond memories of this movie and I always will. It should be shown in schools all over the world.I now have my own movie on DVD and I would recommend it to anyone. It's a joy to watch , It would have been a better world today if they still made movies like this.I do hope to inspire others to watch the movie with their children and enjoy over and over; Its super for young and old.

mmunier January 2006, and we're talking about a film made in 1955! I too saw this movie possibly 50 years ago and have never forgotten it. I tried to get some more information on it in Sydney with our so called movie experts but got nowhere. The internet was not much help either, then last week, lo and behold, I found a DVD in "Parklea Market" Sydney Australia (sort of organised flea market) And it was selling for 5 Australian dollars (perhaps 2.5 Euros). Only one problem the tittle was "The miracle of Marcelino" ... It had to be the same though so I bought it. I could not wait to run it on my DVD player... and there it was "Marcelino Pan y Vino"! Yes try to search for Marcelino pan y vino, chances is you'll get nothing. Of course the reason I'm here is because of my newly acquired knowledge of its English title. I then was a little boy in France and I think the film was in Spanish with french subtitle. I personally think the dubbed version does some damage to the integrity of this beautiful story. I have to be honest here too. I found the movie rather rusty in the light of the ever growing technology in this field and I don't agree that the music is beautiful; it's markedly aged and I don't think I'd like a sound system with this quality. But what a reunion, I had almost given up any hope to see it again. I think My parents took me to watch it in Paris. They were non religious as I am now. They only love it for it's beauty and artistic value. I'm pretty sure if you're reading this you've read other entry and you already know the story, so I won't go into it. I just hope you'll give it a chance in your lounge room, I think the reward will be greatmm Feb. 2006. I had to come back to this movie and read more commentaries since I was here. I felt saddened by some, expressing some kind of paranoia or just pure negativism. One entry asked us to take off our "rosy" glasses to watch this movie... For one I wish I could find my 'rosy' glasses again as the world I see today needs badly to be seen through such device or we'll soon run out of Prozac. Then people wear all kind of glasses with all kind of colours and so see things accordingly that is not to say that other should join in. I wander what colour of glasses Mother Theresa, "l'abbe Pierre" or the like of them wore to achieve what they did. I see Marcelino Bread and Wine" as a simple,touching and beautiful story despite not having entering a church for decades. MM PS Having mentioned my difficulty to search this tittle I tried again because I forgot to bookmark it. This time I made sure to enter in the search field "The miracle of Marcelino" and for result got : Marcelino Pan y Vino (Aka the miracle of Marcelino)...How this for contradiction!

Gerald A. DeLuca When I first saw this film back in 1958, I was a somewhat pietistic adolescent and loved it and this sort of thing, as I had with "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima." I went to it a number of times, as a kind of masturbatory ritual that reveled in new Jesus sightings.I recently re-watched the film, for the first time in its original Spanish version, and while there are a number of things in the movie that are truly appealing, it can also be viewed as a fairly sickening piece of religio-lachrymose schlock. My feelings are actually rather ambivalent. I like the occasional poetry of the piece, which suggests Rossellini's great "Francesco giullare di Dio." I like winsome bug-eyed Pablito Calvo as Marcelino. He seems to have won the heart of Europe, if not the world, when the movie came out. His winsome innocence, innate goodness, despite all the Dennis the Menace pranks, are appealing, and his search for a real mother and a real friend has all the poignancy associated with the life of a lonely orphan. The "Marcelino song" sequence as the young boy gets up one morning is quite tender and beautiful. The music score itself is one I like.As for Jesus-in-the-attic sitting down to talk with Marcelino and accept his gifts of bread and wine and then take him (give him death) so that he can see his mother in heaven, that is frightening and sentimental treacle. Perhaps Jesus might have done better if he had come down in to save the Spanish in their fratricidal civil war instead or bring the Jews of Auschwitz to see his mother. It's interesting that Pope Pius XII received actor Pablito Calvo in a special audience and watched the film. It must have brought tears to his eyes, the eyes that looked away from the Jews at Auschwitz.Perhaps none of this makes sense or is even fair, but they are thoughts that went through my head as I re-watched the film from a new adult perspective.One interesting thing for me is the actor Fernando Rey, who appears at the start and finish as the "narrating" monk. Six years later in 1961 he would star in the very anti-clerical film of Luis Buñuel, "Viridiana," which leveled scathing criticism at exactly the kind of bathos dripping out of the treacle of Spanish and Latinate religiosity at its worst. Hmmmmmmmm! Come to think of it, a Spanish monk started the organization Opus Dei, marked by member self-flagellation and general fundamentalist intolerance.Watch "Marcelino" indeed. Enjoy it as I do much of it. (I've also seen the 1990s Italian version by Luigi Comencini, which is inferior to this one.) But examine the mind-set that produces this kind of thing and ask yourself some questions afterward.