The Nun

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-07-08

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

135 min

Rated:

GP

IMDB Ratings:

(993 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Rivette

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Anna Karina Liselotte Pulver Micheline Presle Francine Bergè

Writer:

Denis Diderot (novel)

Jean Gruault

Jacques Rivette

Fullplot:

In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior (Madame de Moni, Sister Sainte-Christine, and Madame de Chelles) treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.

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