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Directed by : Guillaume Nicloux
Release date: 20 March 2013
Duration: 100 minutes
Genre: Drama
Country : France, Belgium, Germany (2013)
Original language: French

 Synopsis

France, in the 1760s. Born to a bourgeois family, Suzanne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music who longs to live in society. She is at a loss when her parents send her off to a convent, expecting her to become a nun. Adapted from Diderot's eponymous novel, The Nun tells the trajectory of a woman trying to resist imposed religious values, unveiling the dehumanization of cloistered life.

 

La Religieuse .

 

 

 

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