Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle, Francine Berge, Francisco Rabal. Title from title frame. Based on the novel by Denis Diderot. Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Bonus features: audio commentary by fiIm critic Nick Pinkerton; booklet essay by Dennis Lim, director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; Suzanne Simonin; La Scandaleuse, a new making-of documentary; trailer.
Summary:
In eighteenth-century France a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.
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