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Brief review from The Guardian newspaper

posted 11 years ago by PoppyTransfusion
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A bad week for wimples as another set of nuns get a knocking at the cinema. This time around it's not the puritanical Irish dames of Philomena but Isabelle Huppert's sapphic sister, pale of face, crazed of gaze and horny as hell. She's the chief predator in a rollcall of bitchy superiors and full-out fruitcakes our reluctant novice heroine (Pauline Etienne), must dodge to preserve her sanity in this latest adaptation of the 18th-century novel by Denis Diderot.

It's an affecting and frank take on the loneliness of faith as well as faithlessness, whose horrors come in odd contrast to the plush production values. The linen alone is lovely enough to make you weep.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/03/the-nun-isabelle-huppert-r eview

Sounds really good. I hope to catch this sometime soon.

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[–] PoppyTransfusion 10 years ago

Well ,,, I've seen it at last and frankly disagree with the reviewer. I thought it was boring and wrung the misery of the central character's (Suzanne) plight over and over again to nil effect. I agree with the reviewer about the linen though; some of it was beautiful and each set of religious garments was symbolically significant of Suzanne's struggles.

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