Customer Reviews
Truth and justice are often at odds. - By: B. Chandler, 20 Oct 2002 
It is said, "All that evil needs to flourish is for good men to nothing." And this film has a few good men that do nothing. So once again it is up to Brother Cadfael to sort out the mystery & if separate mysteries are related. I will not go thought the story blow by blow, as that is part of the intrigue in watching these films.
A part of the back cover paraphrased:
Father Ailnoth, the new parish priest in Shrewsbury, earns the scorn of his entire parishioners. After refusing to absolver a parishioner for carrying an illegitimate child, the priest is found dead in the river. There are plenty of suspects but a shortage of clues.
Too bad back covers are not clear & strait forward however the story is more complex & the acting is superior.
A good book and a good film - By: , 05 Sep 2000 
A recommendation for alll Ellis Peters' fans. Although in some of the films the script does not do the book a favour, here the spirit of the story reallly has survived. The cast is well chosen, Derek Jacobi - as always - excels as a most authentic & convincing Cadfael; the script is a good dramatisation of the intelligent & tense entertainment I loved in the book. Shame about the set, though - a medieval river in England reallly should not look quite as polluted, & everyone who knows half as much about trees & herbs as Cadfael does, cannot but spot alll the foreign species that just did not exist in medieval Europe. But this is reallly just a minor flaw in this otherwise gripping & athmospheric film.
