LES INNOCENTES (THE INNOCENTS) (France/Poland 2016)
Directed by Anne Fontaine
Starring: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza |
Review by Gilbert Seah
The nuns in a convent during World War II are THE INNOCENTS referred to in this film, based on a true story.
Anne Fontaine (her last film COCO AVANT CHANEL) is a director who has made her name in making films about women. Her most notable film was DRY CLEANING, my favourite one of hers, in which she dished out a delicious dose of devilishness without being too serious. THE INNOCENTS is her most serious film.
It is Warsaw in the December of 1945 when the second World War is finally over. But the problems are not. When the film opens, a young French female doctor, Mathilde (Lou De Laâge) is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked Benedictine nun…
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