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La Religieuse (The Nun)

Suzanne Simonin, la Religieuse de Diderot

1966

Jacques Rivette

Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Francine Bergé, Micheline Presle ...

7.3

612

Drama In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Miss Karina's beauty (...) is the perfect center piece for a film that looks cool and graceful (...) [An] excellent adaptation"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"'The Nun' seems better every time I see it (...) Masterpiece"	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich Slant	"'The Nun' is a mess (...) But it is never less than involving and is anchored by Anna Karina (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Bob Baker Time Out	"Visually uninteresting, with a 'bars' motif that's so redundant as to become irritating"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Perhaps it hasn’t aged quite as well as the rest of Rivette’s work, but it is still a deeply, almost unreadably strange story (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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