The Nun (2013) ( La religieuse )

The Nun (2013) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La religieuse
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Guillaume Nicloux

Written By:
Denis Diderot
Guillaume Nicloux

Actors:
Pauline Etienne ..... Suzanne Simonin
Isabelle Huppert ..... Supérieure Saint-Eutrope
Louise Bourgoin ..... Supérieure Christine
Martina Gedeck ..... Madame Simonin, mère de Suzanne
Françoise Lebrun ..... Madame de Moni
Agathe Bonitzer ..... Soeur Thérèse
Alice de Lencquesaing ..... Soeur Ursule
Gilles Cohen ..... Père de Suzanne
Marc Barbé ..... Père Castella
François Négret ..... Maître Manouri
Lou Castel ..... Baron de Lasson
Nicolas Jouhet ..... Prêtre Sainte-Marie
Pascal Bongard ..... L'archidiacre
Pierre Nisse ..... Marquis de Croismare
Fabrizio Rongione ..... Père Morante

Synopsis:

Guillaume Nicloux directs this French-language adaptation of the novel by Denis Diderot. The film follows the fortunes of Suzanne (Pauline Etienne), the child of a wealthy family who is committed to a nunnery against her will. When informed by her mother Simonin (Martina Gedeck) that she is an illegitimate child, the reasons for her internment become clear to Suzanne: to ease the financial burden on her cash-strapped family and to alleviate her mother's feeling of having 'sinned' by giving birth to her. Suzanne's woes are multiplied by first-hand experience of the corruption and impiety of the church. Viciously abused by Supérieure Christine (Louise Bourgoin), Suzanne attempts to escape her plight through a series of letters begging authority figures to intervene and have her vows annulled. Will she manage to break free?

France, in the 1760s. Born into a bourgeois family, Suzanne (Pauline Etienne) is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Despite her faith, she is dismayed when her parents send her off to a convent, expecting her to become a nun. Suzanne first resists the rules of the convent, but soon finds out that she is an illegitimate child, leaving her no other option than to pronounce her vows and suffer the consequences of her mother's sin. Adapted from Diderot's eponymous novel, The Nun tells the story of a woman trying to resist imposed religious values, revealing the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.

The young Suzanne Simonin is forced by her parents to become a nun. She learns that as an illegitimate child she is supposed to atone for her mother's sin. Her abbess treats her nicely but when she dies Suzanne considers breaking her vows.

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