Les innocentes (2016)
(Agnus Dei)
Country: FR/POL
Technical: col 115m
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Vincent Macaigne
Synopsis:
A Red Cross nurse in Poland after the war secretly helps nuns who have been raped by Soviet troops to give birth in safety. But the horror doesn't end there.
Review:
Fontaine comes of age with this film, which shows female characters grappling with differing moral issues of the utmost seriousness: for the nurse it is the moral courage of doing the right thing or looking the other way, for the nuns whether to abandon their faith or defy their order. All this is handled and acted with considerable delicacy, and the male characters skirt the expected stereotypes. Film-making of irreproachable technique and gravitas; only the epilogue challenges the principles of realism adhered to thitherto.
(Agnus Dei)
Country: FR/POL
Technical: col 115m
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Vincent Macaigne
Synopsis:
A Red Cross nurse in Poland after the war secretly helps nuns who have been raped by Soviet troops to give birth in safety. But the horror doesn't end there.
Review:
Fontaine comes of age with this film, which shows female characters grappling with differing moral issues of the utmost seriousness: for the nurse it is the moral courage of doing the right thing or looking the other way, for the nuns whether to abandon their faith or defy their order. All this is handled and acted with considerable delicacy, and the male characters skirt the expected stereotypes. Film-making of irreproachable technique and gravitas; only the epilogue challenges the principles of realism adhered to thitherto.
(Agnus Dei)
Country: FR/POL
Technical: col 115m
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Vincent Macaigne
Synopsis:
A Red Cross nurse in Poland after the war secretly helps nuns who have been raped by Soviet troops to give birth in safety. But the horror doesn't end there.
Review:
Fontaine comes of age with this film, which shows female characters grappling with differing moral issues of the utmost seriousness: for the nurse it is the moral courage of doing the right thing or looking the other way, for the nuns whether to abandon their faith or defy their order. All this is handled and acted with considerable delicacy, and the male characters skirt the expected stereotypes. Film-making of irreproachable technique and gravitas; only the epilogue challenges the principles of realism adhered to thitherto.