{"id":15826,"date":"2024-02-16T19:10:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=15826"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:27:28","slug":"the-innocents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-innocents-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE INNOCENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE INNOCENTS<\/span><\/h2>\n

| 2016 – 110′ – Drama, History.
\n<\/span>Written by:\u00a0Sabrina B. Karine,\u00a0Alice Vial,\u00a0Pascal Bonitzer,\u00a0Anne Fontaine.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Anne Fontaine.
\nStarring:\u00a0<\/span>Lou de La\u00e2ge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig<\/span>.
\nOfficial Selection Sundance International Film Festival 2016.
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2016\u00a0<\/b>(winner Audience Award).
\n<\/span>In French with English subtitles.
\nA Music Box Films release. |<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film festival under the original title\u00a0Agnus Dei,\u00a0The Innocents<\/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) 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.<\/span><\/em>
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