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Diary Of A Cloistered Nun

1973, Movie, R, 97 mins

Diary Of A Cloistered Nun: Review

Seven years after Jacques Rivette's LA RELIGIEUSE was banned in France, this internationally produced picture covers some of the same ground more graphically and without censorship. Spaak, in Anna Karina's role, plays a nun who is subjected to the corruption of her convent. Set in the 1500s, the film deals with a lesbian mother superior in charge of a nunnery with questionable morals. Lacking Rivette's intellectualism and originality, this dull Paolella opus simply capitaliz... read more leave a comment