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Les Scandales de « La Religieuse » (2023)

Les Scandales de « La Religieuse » (2023)

Documentary
Release Date: 2023, November 8
Directors: Fanny Belvisi
Countries: France
Production: ZED, ARTE
Cast: Blandine Rinkel, Jean-Christophe Laurier, Isabelle Le Bourgeois, Florence Lotterie, Elisabeth Lusset, Paolo Quintili, Barbara Vinken

Overview:

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary, caused the same explosion in the 19th century France as in that of the 1960s, when Jacques Rivette decided to adapt it, with Anna Karina in the title role. “This film is banned and it will remain so!” said the General de Gaulle. Exploration of an indictment of incredible modernity which, through the tragedy of the young Suzanne, locked up in the convent against her will, denounces the inequity of a society denying women all moral, political and sexual freedom.

Keywords:

religion lesbian censorship nun sex scandal lesbian nun social scandal french history french literature