Have you seen the rebellious nun?

It had been a busy week and we had had several groups of people at our house for a meal. We decided it would be fun to rent a movie and just have a relaxing time on Saturday evening. Ada wanted to see a film that she had enjoyed a lot when she was younger: "La Novicia Rebelde" (which means "The Rebellious Nun.") Well, I'd never heard of this film, but our local video club boasts that they have more than 4000 titles in stock, so off we went to ask if they had this one.

"Of course," said the video lady. "It's a classic. But "La Novicia Rebelde" is its name in South America. In Spain it's called, "Sonrisas y Lágrimas" (which means "Smiles and Tears.") Well, that didn't sound much like the same movie to me, but she pointed us towards a shelf, and we headed over there - looking for "Smiles and Tears" instead of for "The Rebellious Nun."

Ada suddenly spotted the DVD and pounced on it... and I couldn't help but burst out laughing when I saw which film it was: it's known to us in English as "The Sound of Music."

So, on Saturday, when our guests left, we settled down to watch Julie Andrews in "The Rebellious Nun" aka "Smiles and Tears" - known to you, no doubt, as "The Sound of Music." It was rather entertaining to see the Austrian scenery (I lived in Austria for four years in the 1980s) and to hear all the old songs and dialogue in Spanish, rather than in German or English!