Sent to a convent against her will Suzanne a young nun finds herself taunted by her fellow Sisters and subjected to sadistic punishments after denying her calling. Taken in by a kindly Mother Superior she soon finds that her affection comes at a price as things take a sinister turn. Despite her suffering Suzanne refuses to accept her fate and her desire for freedom never diminishes.
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Guillaume Nicloux directs this French-language adaptation of the novel by Denis Diderot. The film follows the fortunes of Suzanne (Pauline Etienne), the child of a wealthy family who is committed to a nunnery against her will. When informed by her mother Simonin (Martina Gedeck) that she is an illegitimate child, the reasons for her internment become clear to Suzanne: to ease the financial burden on her cash-strapped family and to alleviate her mother's feeling of having 'sinned' by giving birth to her. Suzanne's woes are multiplied by first-hand experience of the corruption and impiety of the church. Viciously abused by Supérieure Christine (Louise Bourgoin), Suzanne attempts to escape her plight through a series of letters begging authority figures to intervene and have her vows annulled. Will she manage to break free?
Adapted from Diderot's novel, THE NUN tells the story of Suzanne (Pauline Etienne) a young woman born into a bourgeois family, who is sent to a convent against her wishes, to become a nun. After taking comfort in the protection of her kindly Mother Superior, Suzanne suffers brutally at the hands of her sadistic successor, Sister Christine (Louise Bourgoin). Events are complicate further at her next convent, where her new Mother Superior (Isabelle Huppert) offers a very different kind of comfort.
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