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Bookmark this pageLes Anges du Péché (1943)
Director: Robert Bresson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
One of the most astonishing film debuts ever, made while France was still under Nazi occupation. Bresson chose an apparently timeless subject: the way that people affect each other's destinies. Based on the real convent of the Sisters of Béthany, a secluded order of nuns are minutely observed in their rehabilitation of women from prison. If the salvation is tangibly close to a Resistance adventure, it is the simple human confrontations that fascinate Bresson - the consuming desire of secure, bourgeois-born Anne-Marie to save the unrepentant Thérèse, wrongly imprisoned for the sake of her criminal lover. Concentrated dialogue (with a little help from Jean Giraudoux) and moulded monochrome photography by Philippe Agostini contribute to an outstanding film. Rarely have the seemingly opposite worlds of the spiritual and the erotic received such sublime, ennobling treatment.Author: DT
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Bresson
Producer: Roger Richebé
Cast: Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie, Mila Parély, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Louis Seigner full cast
Duration: 96 mins
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