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I agree with the Olivia Hussey casting.

Morgenstein's (deliberate misspelling) performance was OK, but (and this is the fault of the writing) I absolutely detested that flashback scene (in your clip) where Our Lord as a Young Child fell going up some stairs, and she started frantically flailing her arms in panic and freaking out.  Our Blessed Mother absolutely never behaved in that manner.  You'd have thought the Lord had gotten run over by a mule rather than gently fallen (from a height of about 2 feet) onto a pile of straw.  Nor would she have hesitated for a single moment to go console Her Son, as is depicted in this scene.  St. John is having to practically plead with her to go, but she freezes.  When they finally meet, it's indeed very moving, but the stuff leading up to that should have been edited out of the movie as unbecoming of Our Blessed Mother.

It's admittedly been years since watching the flashback/Christ meets Mother scene, so maybe I don't remember the visuals all that well, but I always found it a wonderful scene. The Virgin is the perfect Mother and cannot but be moved with sincere compassion at her Child's most insignificant pain.