Good night, Cubao!

Finished watching The Holy Thief from the Brother Cadfael series.

The first third of the film occurs in the rainy season, and the chapel is flooded. I know how tedious it is to shoot rainy and flooded scenes. Those scenes were quite faithful to the book, though.

There is only one, short sequence with Lady Donata, but I was glad to hear the psalter music and the young monk Tutilo's and the slave girl Daalny's songs, which, naturally, I could never have gotten from reading the book.

The irony of St. Winifred's relics is lost to the reader/viewer without his/her having read A Morbid Taste for Bones. Her casket is plated with silver here, and smaller than in the A Morbid Taste for Bones DVD. I do not recall how the bones were translated without arousing suspicion.

Yet another actor plays Hugh Beringar. This one's face is more expressive, but, in this series, the role is hardly an acting vehicle for anyone.

Love the leatherbound and brass-studded Bible, the Bible-cutting scene, the completely medieval trial-by-water a.k.a. trial-by-drowning sequences, the bronze candleholder, the bronze thurible, and that fleeting brass ewer in the background.

My only problem with this episode had to do with sound. Even with the volume on full there were many scenes in which the characters were muttering beyond audibility.

There is also a significant change from the book: the telltale thread is from the murderer's cloak, not from his saddlecloth. I also can't recall that he committed seppuku.