Fresh
A great film that remains one of the cornerstones of the French New Wave.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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The Nun
Overview
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
Director and cast
- Jacques Rivette Director
- Anna Karina as Suzanne
- Liselotte Pulver as Mme de Chelles
- Micheline Presle as Mme de Moni
- Francine Bergé as Soeur Sainte-Christine
- Francisco Rabal as Dom Morel
- Christiane Lénier as Mme Simonin
- Yori Bertin as Soeur Saint-Thérèse
- Hubert Buthion as L'Archevêque
- Françoise Godde as La Domestique
- Charles Millot as Monsieur Simonin
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A beautiful, calm, austere movie that somehow manages to be remarkably faithful to the original, yet quite different in tone.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
The French censors banned the film for over a year, thus generating both notoriety and goodwill, neither justified.
Time Out
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