The Nun
Synopsis
France, in the 1760s. Born to a bourgeois family, Suzanne (Pauline Etienne) is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Despite her faith, she is dismayed when her parents send her off to a convent, expecting her to become a nun. Suzanne first resists the rules of the convent, but soon finds out that she is an illegitimate child, leaving her no other option than to pronounce her vows and suffer the consequences of her mother’s sin.
She soon wants to escape the religious path and is trying to revoke her vows when the Mother Superior, who had brought her comfort and solace, dies. Her successor, Sister Christine (Louise Bourgoin), turns out to be a sadistic and cruel Mother Superior, inflicting the worst forms of humiliation upon Suzanne, such as depriving her of food and clothing. Suzanne is finally transferred to another convent, where she discovers another kind of Mother Superior (Isabelle Huppert), who develops an inappropriate affectionate bond with her…
Adapted from Diderot’s eponymous novel, The Nun tells the story of a woman trying to resist imposed religious values, revealing the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (26)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Les films du Worso
- Co-productions : France 3 Cinéma, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Hérodiade
- Foreign production companies : Versus production, Belle Epoque Films, Art Cinefeel, RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, Belgacom
- Film exports/foreign sales : Le Pacte
- French distribution : Le Pacte
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Sylvie Pialat
- Screenwriters : Guillaume Nicloux, Jérôme Beaujour
- Director of Photography : Yves Cape
- Music Composer : Max Richter
- Assistant Director : Guy-William Adoh
- Editor : Guy Lecorne
- Sound Recordist : Christian Monheim
- Costume designer : Anaïs Romand
- Foreign producers : Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Benoît Quainon
- Author of original work : Denis Diderot
- Associate Producer : Gilles Sitbon
- Assistant Operator : Sylvain Zambelli
- Production Manager : Didier Abot
- Press Attachés (film) : Laurence Granec, Karine Ménard
- Sound editor : Julie Brenta
- Assistant Editor : Michaël Phelippeau
- Production Designer : Olivier Radot
- Casting : Brigitte Moidon
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Dô Hûu
- Production secretary : Cécile Regnauld
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium, Germany)
- Production year : 2012
- French release : 20/03/2013
- Runtime : 1 h 54 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 126.000
- Visa issue date : 28/02/2013
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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News & awards
News (6)
Selections (14)
Awards (1)
Tübingen | Stuttgart International French-language Film Festival
Germany, 2013
Prix du jury de la jeunesse de Stuttgart
