Nun. The (DVD) (UK Import)

Directed by Guillaume Nicloux

Starring: Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Martina Gedeck, Louise Bourgoin, Françoise Lebrun, Agathe Bonitzer, Alice de Lencquesaing, Gilles Cohen, Marc Barbé, François Négret, Lou Castel
Contributors: Guillaume Nicloux, Jérôme Beaujour, Benoìt Quainon, Max Richter, Yves Cape
Studio: Metrodome Distribution
Genre: World Cinema
Main Language: French
Subtitles: English
Dubbing Language: Latin
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 24 Feb 2014
Originally Issued: 2013
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Cert: (12) Suitable for 12 years and over.
Run Time: 107 minutes

Description

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?

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