Adele, garcon lead cesar nominees 31 january 2014 screendaily. This french historical drama is a mournful, modernfeeling adaptation of a late eighteenthcentury denis diderot novel about a strongwilled teenage aristocrat. Based on the novel by denis diderot, jacques rivettes 1966 film, considered one of the cornerstones of the french new wave by. May 15, 2009 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The nun,directed by nicloux,is an adaptation of diderot s novel. Why is a 1960s film about a nun still controversial. Forced to take vows, rebellious nun anna karina is shunned, tortured, and then exorcised by her austere community.
The subsequent ban helped the film shown at the cannes film festival in 1966 gain. Con pauline etienne, isabelle huppert, louise bourgoin, martina gedeck, francoise lebrun. Completed in about 1780, it was first published by friedrich melchior grimm in 1792 six years after diderots death in his correspondance litteraire in saxony, and subsequently in 1796 in france. The nun,directed by nicloux,is an adaptation of diderots novel. Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways.
As an indictment of the catholic church and wider society too, only reinforced by the film being banned it feels more powerful for its stylistic restraint, and the casting of karina more striking after the freedom of pierrot le fou. Adapted from denis diderots novel, the nun 1965 follows a rebellious nun. In eighteenthcentury france a girl suzanne simonin is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Unlike the shadowy, possibly nonexistent conspirators of paris nous appartient, the heavies in rivettes second feature are all too identifiable.
This critically acclaimed moral drama is taken from a book written in 1760 by denis diderot. Forced to take vows, rebellious nun anna karina is shunned, tortured, and then exorcised by her austere community, and at last finds relief in a funloving, sororitylike convent, where she becomes the latest plaything of mother superior liselotte pulver cagneys secretary in wilders one, two, three. Anna karina, liselotte pulver, micheline presle, francine berge. Diderot in the enlightenment was writing about the abuses of power in the catholic church,the result of patriarchal power and class structures. Completed in about 1780, it was first published by friedrich melchior grimm in 1792 six years after diderot s death in his correspondance litteraire in saxony, and subsequently in 1796 in france. In jacques le fataliste, jacques, who believes in fate, is involved in an endless argument with his master, who does not, as they.
With anna karina, liselotte pulver, micheline presle, francine berge. Born into a bourgeois family, suzanne pauline etienne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Valley of love opening night film 15 june 2015 sydneysbuzz. Quickly bonding with the mother superior, suzanne nonetheless experiences a series of obstacles to her. Suzanne is shocked when her bourgeois family sends her to a convent. For a good while jacques rivettes film from the book by denis diderot is. The nun starts out with a young woman, named suzanne, in a wedding gown preparing to take her vows of chastity, obedience, and. Rencontre avec guillaume evin, auteur du livre quel scandale. Banned for two years in france for its supposedly excessive attack on the church.
Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging. There she faces oppression and torment, leading her to fight back and expose the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life. Adapted from diderots eponymous novel, the nun tells the story of a woman trying. Pauline etienne,giving a powerful central performance.
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