Rencontre avec guillaume evin, auteur du livre quel scandale. 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. The subsequent ban helped the film shown at the cannes film festival in 1966 gain. The nun,directed by nicloux,is an adaptation of diderot s novel. Unlike the shadowy, possibly nonexistent conspirators of paris nous appartient, the heavies in rivettes second feature are all too identifiable. 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. Despite her faith, she is dismayed when her parents send. Adapted from denis diderots novel, the nun 1965 follows a rebellious nun.
Quickly bonding with the mother superior, suzanne nonetheless experiences a series of obstacles to her. There she faces oppression and torment, leading her to fight back and expose the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life. Why is a 1960s film about a nun still controversial. Suzanne is shocked when her bourgeois family sends her to a convent. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Con pauline etienne, isabelle huppert, louise bourgoin, martina gedeck, francoise lebrun. Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways.
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. For a good while jacques rivettes film from the book by denis diderot is. Adapted from diderots eponymous novel, the nun tells the story of a woman trying. Opens january 4 at new yorks film forum and january 18 at laemmle. In eighteenthcentury france a girl suzanne simonin is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. This french historical drama is a mournful, modernfeeling adaptation of a late eighteenthcentury denis diderot novel about a strongwilled teenage aristocrat. Banned for two years in france for its supposedly excessive attack on the church. Pauline etienne,giving a powerful central performance. Suzannes virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses. Anna karina, liselotte pulver, micheline presle, francine berge. Suzanne, 16 ans, est contrainte par sa famille a rentrer dans les. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging. This critically acclaimed moral drama is taken from a book written in 1760 by denis diderot.
May 15, 2009 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Born into a bourgeois family, suzanne pauline etienne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Banned for two years in france for its supposedly excessive attack on the church, rivettes adaptation of denis diderots famous novel of eighteenthcentury convent life became a cause celebre. Based on the novel by denis diderot, jacques rivettes 1966 film, considered one of the cornerstones of the french new wave by. 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. With anna karina, liselotte pulver, micheline presle, francine berge. Valley of love opening night film 15 june 2015 sydneysbuzz. The nun,directed by nicloux,is an adaptation of diderots novel. In jacques le fataliste, jacques, who believes in fate, is involved in an endless argument with his master, who does not, as they. Anna karina plays a young woman, suzanne, whose parents force her to enter a convent. With pauline etienne, isabelle huppert, louise bourgoin, martina gedeck. The nun starts out with a young woman, named suzanne, in a wedding gown preparing to take her vows of chastity, obedience, and.