Agnes de Deus (Série Pêndulo #26)

Romance de Leonore Fleischer baseado na história, peça teatral e roteiro de John Pielmeier. Um grande filme de Norman Jewison com Jane Fonda, Meg Tilly e Anne Bancroft... '-' At a convent, fragile, unearthly Sister Agnes gives birth, but the child dies and Agnes retains no memory of the event. The police soon are involved because of the death of the baby. However, the main conflict is between Mother Superior Miriam Ruth, who wants Agnes left alone, and Dr. Martha Livingston, a psychiatrist determined to help Agnes gain a stronger grasp on reality and uncover any wrongdoers. |...| Screenwriter John Pielmeier has said of this film's script: "When we began working on the screenplay [director] Norman [Jewison] had the idea of setting most of our story in a convent in Québec [in Canada]. It allowed us to create an environment that would be unfamiliar and, I hope, interesting to the audience. It also allowed us to use two languages in the film. Some of the dialogue is in French [with most in English]."

[Reviews] 'In one of her best performances, Jane Fonda plays a psychiatrist who is assigned to deal with a case involving a naive young nun(played by Meg Tilly) who allegedly gave birth to a baby and murdered it in the convent. While slow and gimmicky at times, the acting and story are enough to keep the film worth watching. Anne Bancroft also gives a very good performance as the Mother Superior at the convent who is highly skeptical of Fonda's character and profession'.'

Aventura / Cinema / Crime / Drama / Ficção / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance policial / Suspense e Mistério / Terror