Jacques Rivette's 1966 masterpiece of an oppressed nun speaks to the present
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Jan 18, 2019
3 minutes
Jacques Rivette's 1966 film, "La Religieuse (The Nun)," might be one of the greatest prison movies ever made and certainly one of the most controversial. The prison is a Catholic convent, and the inmate we are following is Suzanne Simonin (Anna Karina), a young woman who takes vows against her will.
For the rest of her short, defiant life she will be brutalized by a repressive order that exists mainly to serve the whims of a corrupt aristocracy, the camera catching her every tribulation with a rigorous solemnity
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