The Nun (2013)

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Movie
Original title The nun
La Religieuse
Country of production France
Germany
Belgium
original language French
Publishing year 2013
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Guillaume Nicloux
script Guillaume Nicloux,
Jérôme Beaujour
production Benoît Quainon
music Max Richter
camera Yves Cape
cut Guy Lecorne
occupation
synchronization

Die Nun is a French-German-Belgian literary film adaptation by Guillaume Nicloux from 2013. It is based on the novel of the same name by Denis Diderot and is a remake of the 1966 film Die Nun by Jacques Rivette .

action

France in 1765. Marquis de Croismare arrives at his father Baron de Lasson's castle. Here he finds a manuscript by a certain Suzanne Simonin, who tells from her life. The marquis begins to read and shortly afterwards seeks out his father for an explanatory conversation. However, he asks his son to continue reading the notes:

France in 1763: 16-year-old Suzanne Simonin is the youngest of three sisters. Unlike Armelle and Lucie, who are going to get married, she goes to the convent first, but believes the family will bring her back once the sisters are under the hood. Time passed and Suzanne was told that the family's financial situation was so precarious due to the weddings that she had to spend another year in the monastery. The family later tries to get her to take a nun's vow. Suzanne gives in under the pressure, but refuses to take part in the blessing. Only now does she learn from her mother that she came from an extramarital relationship. Her real father is a rich man, but Suzanne's mother does not reveal his name. Since Suzanne realizes that her status would not allow her to live in the family, she is forced to return to the monastery. The understanding superior of the monastery, Madame de Moni, gives her consolation, but she breaks down because of Suzanne's suffering. She falls away from her faith and takes her own life, while Suzanne feels faint during the blessing and has to spend several days in the sick bay.

The new superior is the young sister Christine, who introduces strict rules, including the wearing of penitent shirts . Suzanne resists and burns her shirt. As a result, she is bullied and ostracized. Only when she passes out does a doctor examine her and determine that she is malnourished. During her time in bed, Suzanne secretly organizes writing materials and paper. She begins with her notes and does not tell Christine where she hides the writing materials. As a punishment, she is forced to run over broken glass and imprisoned. Suzanne rebels and passes her notes, which also contain the atrocities against her, through a confidante to a lawyer whom she asks to be released from the monastery. The release from the vows lasts, however, so in addition to the archdeacon, the Pope must also support leaving the monastery. Her decision leads to a deep exclusion from monastic life, which is systematically promoted by Superior Christine. Suzanne is no longer allowed to pray, receives nothing other than her underclothes, is not allowed to wear a cross, to attend mass and confession, and not to leave her cell. Her room, in which there is only one mattress, must also serve as a toilet. Christine publicly interprets Suzanne's desperation as an obsession. The archdeacon is shocked by Christine's behavior and has the measures lifted. The lawyer, in turn, brings Suzanne the news that the Pope has denied release from the vow. Relocation to another monastery could at least be achieved through relationships. The lawyer promises to continue working for Suzanne and to follow up on clues about her possible father.

Suzanne enters the monastery of Superior Saint-Eutrope. Here she is welcomed in a friendly manner and soon becomes a close reference person to the superior. Kindness soon turns into tenderness on the part of the superior, which Suzanne rejects. In addition, she reveals the events to the priest Sainte-Marie during confession, who encourages her to reject the rapprochement of the superior. Over the unrequited love, the superior becomes more and more insane. One day Suzanne receives the key to the garden gate from the priest and learns that the lawyer had organized her escape. The long journey ends at the castle of Baron de Lasson.

Suzanne wakes up the next morning. After a tour of the castle, she meets the Marquis de Croismare. He introduces himself to her and asks her if she could still talk to the baron, her father. She nods. He informs her that the baron died that night. He has waited for her all his life.

production

Château de Fléchères, a location for the film
Pauline Étienne at the premiere of the film at the Berlinale 2013

The nun is based on the novel of the same name by Denis Diderot, which appeared for the first time in 1792 and was filmed several times, including in 1966 under the same title by Jacques Rivette . The shooting locations included the Maulbronn Monastery , the Bronnbach Monastery , the Notre-Dame-des-Marais Church in Villefranche-sur-Saône as well as Le Passage and Wertheim . The castle of the Baron de Lasson was found in the Château de Fléchères . Anaïs Romand created the costumes and Olivier Radot created the film .

The film premiered on February 10, 2013 as part of the 2013 Berlinale . It was released on March 20, 2013 in Belgian and French cinemas; it was seen by around 105,000 viewers in French cinemas. It was shown in German cinemas from October 31, 2013 and was released on DVD in April 2014.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Suzanne Simonin Pauline Etienne Marcia from Rebay
Matron Staint-Eutrope Isabelle Huppert Susanna Bonaséwicz
Matron Christine Louise Bourgoin Anke Kortemeier
Madame de Moni Françoise Lebrun Angelika Bender
Sister Thérèse Agathe Bonitzer Laura Maire
Sister Ursule Alice de Lencquesaing Marieke Oeffinger
Suzanne's father Gilles Cohen Reinhard Brock
Father Castella Marc Barbé Walter von Hauff
Maître Manouri Francois Negret Matthias Klie
Baron de Lasson Lou Castel Peter Musäus
Priest Sainte-Marie Nicolas Jouhet Claus-Peter Damitz
archdeacon Pascal Bongard Frank Engelhardt
Marquis de Croismare Pierre Nisse Manuel Straube
Father Morante Fabrizio Rongione Philipp Brammer
doctor Daniel Hanssens Matthias Copper

criticism

The Süddeutsche Zeitung criticized the film as a “far too tame adaptation of the novel,” which was bland, but called the leading actress Pauline Étienne a discovery and the setting exquisite, so that the film was in some cases almost “haptic pleasure”. For the Frankfurter Rundschau , Die Nunne was also “a feast for the eyes”, which “celebrated the story of suffering in a kind of indulgent restraint in open images that were surprisingly light-flooded for a monastery film [...]”. Der Spiegel called the film entertaining, but with the appearance of Huppert as a "crazy lesbian nun boss" involuntarily parodic.

Awards

The nun ran at the Berlinale 2013 in the competition for the Golden Bear . Pauline Etienne was nominated for a César in the category Best Young Actress in 2014 . In the same year she also received a nomination for the Prix ​​Lumières in the same category .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for The Nun . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 515 K).
  2. ↑ See Box Office on allocine.fr
  3. ↑ The nun. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Martina Knoben: betrayal of Denis Diderot . sueddeutsche.de, November 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ Daniel Kothenschulte: Beauty has to suffer . fr-online.de, October 31, 2013.
  6. ↑ New Films in November: The Nun . In: KulturSpiegel , No. 11, 2013, p. 50.