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The nun = La religieuse /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English Publisher: [New York, NY] : Kino Classics, [2019]Description: 1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bookletOther title:
  • At head of title: Suzanne Simonin
  • Religieuse
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Cast: Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle, Francine Berge, Cyril McLaglen.Summary: In eighteenth-century France a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00603 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050316228

Title from sell sheet.

Based on the novel by Diderot.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1965.

Bonus features: audio commentary by Im critic Nick Pinkerton; booklet essay by Dennis Lim, director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; Suzanne Simonin; La Scandaleus, a new making-of documentary; trailer.

Blu-ray, wide screen; region A; 2.0 mono; requires Blu-ray player.

French dialogue; optional English subtitles.

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