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Diary Of A Cloistered Nun

1973, Movie, R, 97 mins

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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 capitalizes on taboo sexuality. An example of how body-revealing films are easier to accept than those that dig into politics and morality. leave a comment
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