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THE INNOCENTS \/\u00a0<\/strong>Les Innocentes<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518202487374{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n
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West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 110 min<\/p>\n

Directed by<\/strong>: Anne Fontaine
\nWritten by<\/strong>: Pascal Bonitzer, Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial
\nOriginal Idea:\u00a0<\/strong>Philippe Maynial
\n<\/strong>Cinematography<\/strong>: Caroline Champetier
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Annette Dutertre
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Gr\u00e9goire Hetzel
\nProduced by<\/strong>: \u00c9ric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer
\nCast<\/strong>: Lou de La\u00e2ge (Mathilde Beaulieu), Agata Buzek (Maria), Agata Kulesza (M\u00e8re Abesse), Vincent Macaigne (Samuel), Joanna Kulig (Irena)
\nInternational Sales<\/strong>: Films Distribution \u2022 filmsdistribution.com
\nUS Distributor<\/strong>: Music Box Films \u2022 musicboxfilms.com<\/p>\n

Premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film festival under the original title\u00a0Agnus Dei<\/em>,\u00a0The Innocents<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a WWII film with a fresh, feminine perspective. Set in the ruins of 1945 Poland after hostilities have ceased, the drama unfolds in a Benedictine convent, where the sisters try to maintain a tenuous grip on their faith after the chaos of war upends their cloistered existence. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor is convinced to break protocol and make a house call at the convent. What she finds there disturbs her \u2013 a pregnant nun in the midst of a complicated labor. More shocking still, she discovers several more novice nuns in various stages of pregnancy, and a headstrong Mother Superior (Agata Kulesza,\u00a0Ida<\/em>) refusing medical assistance for fear that if word gets out the convent\u2019s future will be jeopardized. Secular and thoroughly modern, what Mathilde lacks in religious conviction she makes up for in compassion and decency, but she is ill prepared to confront the corrosive feelings of abandonment and shame overwhelming these servants of God.<\/p>\n

This is perhaps the most restrained and intense film of writer\/director Anne Fontaine, who is known for her more glamorous fare such as the glitzy biopic\u00a0Coco Before Chanel<\/em>\u00a0(2009), and her frothy comedy\u00a0Gemma Bovery<\/em>\u00a0(COLCOA 2015). With the help of co-writers Sabrina Karine, Pascal Bonitzer and Alice Vial, Fontaine creates a multi-layered story based on an original idea by Philippe Maynial, the nephew of historical figure Madeleine Pauliac, upon whom the Mathilde character is based. After starting out as a TV actor, Fontaine gained international recognition with her provocative third feature,\u00a0Dry Cleaning<\/em>\u00a0(COLCOA 1998).<\/p>\n

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QUOTES:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026intelligent, nuanced filmmaking at its best.\u201d
\n\u2013 Judith Prescott,\u00a0French Cinema Review<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026leaves us with a fresh understanding of our capacity to respond to suffering with good or evil.\u201d
\n\u2013\u00a0 Justin Chang,\u00a0Variety<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518202429169{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] THE INNOCENTS \/\u00a0Les Innocentes [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518202487374{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2016 DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 110 min Directed by: Anne Fontaine Written by: Pascal Bonitzer, Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial Original Idea:\u00a0Philippe Maynial Cinematography: Caroline Champetier Film Editing: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274\/revisions\/1289"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}