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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:04,877 This film was adapted from Diderot's novel of the same name. 2 00:00:05,050 --> 00:00:08,352 It does not claim to give an exact portrait of religious institutions... 3 00:00:08,486 --> 00:00:10,806 not even those of the XVIIIthe Century. 4 00:00:11,037 --> 00:00:13,379 It is a work of the imagination. 5 00:00:13,667 --> 00:00:18,371 From which no hasty generalization should be made. 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:27,240 1760. Denis Diderot is 47 years old. 7 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,900 In a few weeks the Encyclopaedist... 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,940 wrote "La Religieuse". 9 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,420 In those days convent life was... 10 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,040 often only outwardly a true religious life. 11 00:00:41,420 --> 00:00:45,940 For a given sum many aristocratic families... 12 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,140 shut their daughters up until marriage. 13 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,479 Widows - spinsters retired to convents. 14 00:00:52,580 --> 00:00:56,600 Convents were bought like stocks and shares. 15 00:00:56,780 --> 00:00:58,800 The benefice system. 16 00:00:59,260 --> 00:01:03,920 Mother Superiors were appointed on account of their nobel birth. 17 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,700 Girls of 20 - or even less... 18 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,300 sometimes directed vast convents. 19 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,600 In many of them a life of luxury was the rule. 20 00:01:15,740 --> 00:01:18,530 The religious life lost all meaning... 21 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:21,000 in such a context. 22 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:26,200 Diderot based his novel on real persons - 23 00:01:26,380 --> 00:01:29,600 Louise of Orleans - Daughter of the Regent... 24 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:34,300 who became Abbess of Chelles in 1719... 25 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,720 is the original of one of the Superiors. 26 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,240 Suzanne the nun - the leading role, was based on Marguerite Delamarre... 27 00:01:42,340 --> 00:01:44,400 whose father shut her up... 28 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:47,900 in a convent at age three.. 29 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:51,800 Having appealed against her forced vows in 1752... 30 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,340 she lost and remained till her death... 31 00:01:55,380 --> 00:01:58,920 in Longchamp, which is portrayed in Diderot's novel. 32 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,900 But the entire story is a commentary... 33 00:02:03,127 --> 00:02:04,869 on the words of Bossuet: 34 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,440 "Do not enter such a high ceiling... 35 00:02:08,441 --> 00:02:11,012 unless you are tired of the world. 36 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,020 Sister leave the cloister". 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,900 Bringing up this daughter would be expensive: 38 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,190 she is therefore devoted to religion. 39 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,460 She has no vocation: 40 00:02:24,461 --> 00:02:28,597 compared with the present state of affaires... 41 00:02:28,620 --> 00:02:31,639 and necessity that means nothing. 42 00:02:31,780 --> 00:02:34,800 So she is brought bound hand foot to the Temple and sacrificed. 43 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:37,900 But this is not a sacrifice which glories God 44 00:02:38,001 --> 00:02:41,048 Louis Bourdaloue. 45 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,400 Marie-Suzanne Simonin, do you promise to tell the truth? 46 00:04:37,057 --> 00:04:38,140 I promise. 47 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,320 Are you here of your own free will? 48 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:44,717 Yes. 49 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,280 Marie-Suzanne Simonin, 50 00:04:48,460 --> 00:04:51,700 do you promise unto God chastity, poverty and obedience? 51 00:04:52,231 --> 00:04:54,118 I do not. 52 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:57,500 Marie-Suzanne Simonin... 53 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:00,700 do you promise unto God chastity, poverty and obedience? 54 00:05:00,801 --> 00:05:02,101 No, Monseigneur 55 00:05:02,340 --> 00:05:04,700 Keep calm and listen. 56 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:09,640 You ask me if I promise God chastity, poverty, obedience. 57 00:05:10,016 --> 00:05:13,824 I heard you and my reply is No. 58 00:05:14,135 --> 00:05:18,057 Gentlemen, above all my parents... 59 00:05:18,192 --> 00:05:22,300 I take you to witness: I am here under duress. 60 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:26,200 Up till now I have pretended to obey... 61 00:05:26,401 --> 00:05:29,411 so that I could make a public protest. 62 00:05:29,660 --> 00:05:33,700 I have no vocation. I cannot obey my parents... 63 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,300 Dear parents, do what you like with me... 64 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,400 except make me a nun. 65 00:05:40,501 --> 00:05:42,001 I won't and I shan't. 66 00:06:01,660 --> 00:06:03,800 I am still your child. 67 00:06:03,940 --> 00:06:06,044 Get up, Suzanne. 68 00:06:06,245 --> 00:06:07,845 Get up. 69 00:06:14,660 --> 00:06:16,380 You weep... 70 00:06:16,681 --> 00:06:18,381 but you're an ungrateful child. 71 00:06:19,380 --> 00:06:21,600 You know how much money we've lost. 72 00:06:22,140 --> 00:06:26,200 In marrying your sisters, we've ruined ourselves. 73 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:29,900 Your father is a good lawyer, not a banker. 74 00:06:30,460 --> 00:06:33,200 We cannot afford to marry you. 75 00:06:36,860 --> 00:06:41,400 When you entered the convent, we had more expenses. 76 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,300 Everyone knew you were taking the veil. 77 00:06:45,780 --> 00:06:48,160 Your refusal is a scandal. 78 00:06:48,579 --> 00:06:50,286 Well? 79 00:06:50,731 --> 00:06:52,827 Have you nothing to say? 80 00:06:53,060 --> 00:06:55,000 What will you do? 81 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,200 Follow me. 82 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,200 Father, you've been our confessor for 20 years. 83 00:07:33,460 --> 00:07:35,400 You must talk to her. 84 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:37,900 I have never tried to convert. 85 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:40,220 Only you can succeed. 86 00:07:40,980 --> 00:07:44,800 Only God can. It is not for me to interfere. 87 00:07:46,620 --> 00:07:48,400 Have you found it? 88 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:49,960 I'm looking. 89 00:07:50,340 --> 00:07:53,200 Suzanne has been shut up three months. 90 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:56,300 She knows it's hopeless. 91 00:07:57,301 --> 00:07:59,179 I must finish with it. 92 00:08:07,161 --> 00:08:09,666 Can I see my mother today? 93 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,000 Can I ask my father to tell her? 94 00:08:14,740 --> 00:08:16,480 Can I write to them? 95 00:08:19,451 --> 00:08:20,968 You know you can't 96 00:08:22,296 --> 00:08:24,106 What is the date? 97 00:08:27,060 --> 00:08:28,900 May 2nd. 98 00:08:33,295 --> 00:08:34,887 Let's be frank. 99 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,400 I spent all on her. 100 00:08:38,220 --> 00:08:40,900 I can do nothing for the other. 101 00:08:42,420 --> 00:08:44,220 She should consider. 102 00:08:47,311 --> 00:08:49,311 What can I do with her? 103 00:08:50,137 --> 00:08:52,437 She cannot possibly work. 104 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:57,300 What liberty would she have? Much less than as a nun. 105 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,536 You know what happens to girls without money. 106 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,964 - Workhouse.... - Yes, or even prison... 107 00:09:06,116 --> 00:09:08,616 I just want you to see her. 108 00:09:11,647 --> 00:09:13,647 Good I'll talk to her. 109 00:09:17,398 --> 00:09:19,198 Come, my child. 110 00:09:30,569 --> 00:09:32,769 Don't be afraid to open your heart to me. 111 00:09:33,709 --> 00:09:35,069 Come. 112 00:09:42,076 --> 00:09:44,300 I have nothing to say. 113 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,720 I entered holy orders late in life. 114 00:09:48,237 --> 00:09:50,000 I could understand you. 115 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:51,700 Mother hates me. 116 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:56,500 You should be sorry for her, not blame her, she is good... 117 00:09:56,928 --> 00:10:00,028 - but powerless... - Who is forcing her? 118 00:10:00,340 --> 00:10:02,080 Didn't she give birth to me? 119 00:10:02,197 --> 00:10:05,135 - Am I different from my sisters? - Very. 120 00:10:05,235 --> 00:10:06,635 How do you mean? 121 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:13,580 Try to take things patiently. Sit down... 122 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:17,400 and stay calm for a moment. 123 00:10:17,503 --> 00:10:19,003 Come. 124 00:10:23,504 --> 00:10:24,500 No. 125 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:26,339 No, Father. 126 00:10:26,540 --> 00:10:28,763 I cannot pray anymore 127 00:10:28,864 --> 00:10:31,720 - I have tried... - My child... 128 00:10:31,820 --> 00:10:33,540 I was prettier than my sisters... 129 00:10:35,180 --> 00:10:37,220 much to my parents distress. 130 00:10:38,140 --> 00:10:39,600 When I was nearly fifteen... 131 00:10:40,580 --> 00:10:42,620 a young man courting my sister... 132 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,660 found he liked me better. I told my mother. 133 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:49,960 Four days later I was put in a convent. 134 00:10:50,540 --> 00:10:53,740 I stayed there two years till my vows. 135 00:10:54,380 --> 00:10:57,620 My parents are said to be good people. 136 00:10:57,983 --> 00:11:00,583 They are like and respected. 137 00:11:01,477 --> 00:11:02,977 Then why with me? 138 00:11:06,140 --> 00:11:09,660 My daughter, I see I shall have to reveal a secret. 139 00:11:12,180 --> 00:11:16,937 I have tried to persuade you mother to tell you. 140 00:11:17,601 --> 00:11:19,501 But you know how she is. 141 00:11:19,940 --> 00:11:23,200 She hoped to convince you otherwise. 142 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:28,260 The fact is - you are not Mr. Simonin's daughter. 143 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:29,900 I suspected it. 144 00:11:30,420 --> 00:11:36,340 Well then, you see she cannot give you the same precedence. 145 00:11:37,019 --> 00:11:41,019 - If she can tell your father... - Who is my father? 146 00:11:41,380 --> 00:11:43,300 I have not been told. 147 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,700 You sisters have had everything... 148 00:11:53,231 --> 00:11:57,052 but your heritage is reduced to nothing. 149 00:11:57,220 --> 00:12:00,620 If you lose your parents, you will have nothing. 150 00:12:01,915 --> 00:12:06,900 You refuse the convent. You may live to regret it. 151 00:12:07,101 --> 00:12:08,901 I ask for nothing. 152 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,000 I've told you what I have to tell you. 153 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,915 It's up to you to make a decision. 154 00:12:18,501 --> 00:12:19,801 Father... 155 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:22,500 Just one question... 156 00:12:24,001 --> 00:12:27,001 - do my sisters know this? - No. 157 00:12:27,860 --> 00:12:31,560 And they took everything form their sister... 158 00:12:31,861 --> 00:12:34,180 as they thought me? 159 00:12:34,381 --> 00:12:37,381 I would advise you not to count on them... 160 00:12:38,220 --> 00:12:43,500 They have children: A valid excuse for reducing you to beggary. 161 00:12:44,201 --> 00:12:47,033 And charity is cold comfort. 162 00:12:48,540 --> 00:12:52,600 Believe me. Make it up with your parents... 163 00:12:54,101 --> 00:12:58,601 Do what your mother wants and become a nun. 164 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:02,000 You'll have a small income. 165 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,480 You days will agreeable, if not happy... 166 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:11,200 My child you are good and kind hearted. 167 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,661 Think of all that. 168 00:13:29,060 --> 00:13:31,500 Your mother will see you now. 169 00:13:49,100 --> 00:13:50,100 Sit down. 170 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,582 Your father is away. Tell me... 171 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:59,920 The priest told you. 172 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,220 You know who you are and what you can expect... 173 00:14:07,060 --> 00:14:10,600 Well, Suzanne, what have you decided? 174 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:14,600 Mother, I know I have nothing... 175 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,400 and can claim nothing I understand... 176 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,300 but you are my mother, I beg you not to forget... 177 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,140 I wish I could forget. 178 00:14:34,260 --> 00:14:36,541 Do not go on poisoning my life any longer. 179 00:14:38,060 --> 00:14:40,400 My passion has died down... 180 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,100 and conscience rules. 181 00:14:44,401 --> 00:14:46,301 But my real father... 182 00:14:48,484 --> 00:14:49,984 He died... 183 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:52,900 without remembering you. 184 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,720 The trouble he caused could have killed us... 185 00:15:02,421 --> 00:15:03,838 God did not will it. 186 00:15:06,420 --> 00:15:08,985 You have nothing and never will. 187 00:15:09,260 --> 00:15:11,500 The little I can, I do in secret. 188 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,900 I've sold my jewels, given up gaming... 189 00:15:15,180 --> 00:15:18,900 The theatre - finished. I've given up all luxury. 190 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,000 If you become a nun, as I wish... 191 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:25,894 your benefice will be my saving. 192 00:15:26,140 --> 00:15:29,900 But a few people still come to the house. 193 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,500 Perhaps one of them will marry me. 194 00:15:34,580 --> 00:15:37,200 No question of it. There's the scandal! 195 00:15:37,420 --> 00:15:41,300 If I don't find a husband, must I be a nun? 196 00:15:41,820 --> 00:15:44,260 Do you want to prolong my agony? 197 00:15:45,774 --> 00:15:47,700 Listen, my daughter... 198 00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:52,200 your sisters will be at my deathbed? Can you be there? 199 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,310 How can I say before God... 200 00:15:55,420 --> 00:15:57,730 that I have atoned for my sins... 201 00:15:57,930 --> 00:16:01,760 with you making trouble and claiming what is not... 202 00:16:02,262 --> 00:16:04,756 What feeling must I die with? 203 00:16:04,857 --> 00:16:07,557 I shall have to tell your father... 204 00:16:08,609 --> 00:16:10,637 that you are not his daughter. 205 00:16:11,220 --> 00:16:13,180 If all I had to do was beg you... 206 00:16:15,540 --> 00:16:17,300 but you have no feelings. 207 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,300 As stubborn as your father. 208 00:16:22,801 --> 00:16:24,301 Leave the room. 209 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 We do not want you. 210 00:16:50,282 --> 00:16:51,482 Oh God! 211 00:16:52,397 --> 00:16:53,958 Give me understanding. 212 00:16:54,959 --> 00:16:56,959 Give me strength. 213 00:16:59,552 --> 00:17:02,300 Madam has promised not to see you. 214 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,477 But you can write to her... 215 00:17:08,620 --> 00:17:10,100 Mother... 216 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,020 I ask your to excuse me. 217 00:17:12,780 --> 00:17:17,654 I will do what you wish. If you want me to become a nun... 218 00:17:17,980 --> 00:17:20,800 I hope it is God's will too..." 219 00:17:43,088 --> 00:17:46,388 Suzanne, you recognize this not? 220 00:17:46,780 --> 00:17:49,700 - Yes, sir - Of your own free will? 221 00:17:49,901 --> 00:17:51,201 Yes. 222 00:17:51,340 --> 00:17:53,600 You're prepared to do this? 223 00:17:54,101 --> 00:17:55,482 Yes sir, everything. 224 00:17:56,220 --> 00:17:58,900 Do you prefer any order? 225 00:18:00,701 --> 00:18:01,901 No. 226 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,000 No, they're all the same to me. 227 00:18:05,001 --> 00:18:06,501 Good enough. 228 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:24,100 I hesitate to receive a girl with so little vocation. 229 00:18:24,420 --> 00:18:27,200 I believe I'm not the first to say so. 230 00:18:27,401 --> 00:18:28,901 True, Mother... 231 00:18:29,180 --> 00:18:33,950 but it was only an outburst which Suzanne has much regretted. 232 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:36,800 Well, Mother of Novices? 233 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,700 A scandal is a scandal. 234 00:18:40,740 --> 00:18:42,900 We couldn't tolerate it here. 235 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,900 It won't happen again... 236 00:18:46,260 --> 00:18:49,100 And in a convent with your reputation Suzanne's talents... 237 00:18:49,340 --> 00:18:52,260 can excuse much. 238 00:18:52,460 --> 00:18:55,270 She's musical and has a pretty voice. 239 00:18:55,588 --> 00:18:58,271 and then the endowment is not.... 240 00:18:58,460 --> 00:19:01,000 I leave those matters to Sister... 241 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:04,500 - 1,000 crowns ... - ...who has given her opinion. 242 00:19:05,580 --> 00:19:08,200 Sister Sainte-Christine... 243 00:19:08,340 --> 00:19:10,080 I have no fear of scandal. 244 00:19:10,540 --> 00:19:14,000 It is part of your task to accept rebels... 245 00:19:14,140 --> 00:19:17,200 and to teach them how to accept divine law. 246 00:19:17,860 --> 00:19:20,200 This is a difficult child... 247 00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:23,660 and as such we should care for her. 248 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,500 - I accept your daughter. - Mother. 249 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:29,700 Not another word, Madam. 250 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:39,900 Tell your daughter to write to the Superior... 251 00:19:41,060 --> 00:19:44,000 and thank her for accepting her. 252 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:53,700 Here is your daughter. 253 00:19:59,940 --> 00:20:03,900 You have already been a novice. You know the rules. 254 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,200 Ours are the same, but stricter. 255 00:20:07,580 --> 00:20:10,900 You'll know them soon and won't forget them. 256 00:20:13,260 --> 00:20:17,027 Your mother said you were musical and could sing. 257 00:20:17,479 --> 00:20:18,900 We have a harpsichord. 258 00:20:19,340 --> 00:20:21,500 Let's go to the parlour. 259 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,500 Well, Mademoiselle? 260 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,400 What must I sing? 261 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:53,627 What comes to you. 262 00:20:54,428 --> 00:20:56,128 This then. 263 00:21:11,260 --> 00:21:14,100 Oh, mournful shore 264 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,500 A ghostly wave 265 00:21:18,460 --> 00:21:22,800 Daylight more hideous than night 266 00:21:23,860 --> 00:21:28,837 The awful starlight of the grave 267 00:21:29,897 --> 00:21:34,509 The awful starlight of the grave 268 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:39,900 No, I shall no more see your light. 269 00:21:42,201 --> 00:21:45,401 No... No... 270 00:21:45,902 --> 00:21:47,902 That's perfect. 271 00:21:48,460 --> 00:21:50,500 Suzanne you sing beautifully. 272 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,200 My compliments, Madam. 273 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:07,600 Farewell, my daughter. Do not make me suffer. 274 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,500 - How are you my child? - I am resigned, Mother. 275 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:58,000 - Have you no other feeling? - Honestly, no, Mother. 276 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,500 I know all about you. I'm sorry for you. 277 00:23:08,380 --> 00:23:10,400 I understand your difficulties. 278 00:23:10,860 --> 00:23:13,330 I share your doubts and... 279 00:23:13,940 --> 00:23:16,300 probably suffer more than you. 280 00:23:17,940 --> 00:23:20,300 Let me try to give you courage. 281 00:23:20,901 --> 00:23:22,401 You love God? 282 00:23:22,660 --> 00:23:25,260 - With all my heart. - The rest will come... 283 00:23:25,761 --> 00:23:27,861 without you ever noticing it. 284 00:23:29,562 --> 00:23:31,662 Our God is a hidden God. 285 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,200 He comes like a thief... 286 00:23:35,260 --> 00:23:39,200 without announcing his presence. 287 00:23:45,605 --> 00:23:48,605 But supposing I am not suitable? 288 00:23:48,740 --> 00:23:50,800 There are thorns in every path. 289 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:54,200 We only feel out own. Let grace have its way. 290 00:23:57,220 --> 00:23:58,780 Abandon your thoughts... 291 00:23:59,180 --> 00:24:01,360 even the simplest ones. 292 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,800 Shut your eyes. Deprive yourself of will. 293 00:24:05,140 --> 00:24:07,200 Let nature die in you. 294 00:24:08,220 --> 00:24:11,000 Agree to see God when it shall please Him. 295 00:24:14,340 --> 00:24:15,600 Come, my child... 296 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:18,940 Let us kneel and pray. 297 00:24:20,966 --> 00:24:23,666 Our Father which art in Heaven. 298 00:24:23,980 --> 00:24:25,860 Hallowed be thy name. 299 00:24:26,460 --> 00:24:28,300 Thy Kingdom come. 300 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,200 Thy will be done on Earth - as it is in Heaven. 301 00:24:33,420 --> 00:24:36,600 Give us this day. Our daily bread. 302 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,700 And forgive us our trespasses... 303 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:42,900 as we forgive those that have trespassed against us. 304 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,500 Lead us not into temptation... 305 00:24:47,780 --> 00:24:49,797 but deliver us from evil. 306 00:24:50,935 --> 00:24:52,935 Amen. 307 00:24:58,214 --> 00:24:59,774 But deliver us from evil. 308 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:01,710 Amen. 309 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,200 Revive thy trust. Oh my soul... 310 00:25:05,854 --> 00:25:09,285 in the presence of God and Christ, thy love... 311 00:25:09,786 --> 00:25:10,786 Jesus... 312 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,250 who became a man for love of thee... 313 00:25:14,860 --> 00:25:17,700 who died on the Cross to save thee... 314 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:21,100 and now lives here to heed thee... 315 00:25:25,901 --> 00:25:27,401 speak to her... 316 00:25:28,261 --> 00:25:29,661 and tell her that... 317 00:25:30,862 --> 00:25:32,162 tell her... 318 00:25:38,364 --> 00:25:39,964 What is it with me? 319 00:25:42,787 --> 00:25:44,720 It seems that when you come... 320 00:25:45,820 --> 00:25:47,460 God goes away... 321 00:25:48,260 --> 00:25:49,620 and His spirit is silent. 322 00:25:52,260 --> 00:25:55,200 I find myself a poor weak woman... 323 00:25:56,360 --> 00:26:00,900 - afraid to speak. - Perhaps it is a sign, Mother. 324 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:03,956 Perhaps God makes you dumb... 325 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,100 The entire community accepts the vows... 326 00:26:36,260 --> 00:26:39,400 of our future Sister, Suzanne. 327 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,800 "The Lord is my shepherd... 328 00:26:43,140 --> 00:26:44,900 I shall not want. 329 00:26:53,980 --> 00:26:56,860 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. 330 00:26:57,340 --> 00:26:59,820 he leadth me beside still waters. 331 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,500 What is it, Suzanne? 332 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,300 Have you seen Mother? 333 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:35,900 I think she's resting in the garden. 334 00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:42,500 Mother... 335 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:46,300 - What is it? - Help me Mother. 336 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,300 I too want to be helped. 337 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,700 - Tomorrow, isn't it? - You know it is. 338 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,500 And you're hesitant. Worried more than ever? 339 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:00,800 I don't know if I'll have the strength. 340 00:28:01,201 --> 00:28:02,601 You will. 341 00:28:07,260 --> 00:28:09,900 I won't tell you all the things... 342 00:28:10,060 --> 00:28:12,140 about the dangers of the world. 343 00:28:12,380 --> 00:28:14,100 You know I love you dearly. 344 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,700 They say you are my favorite. 345 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,700 You have always done your duty. 346 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,700 - Why fear the future? - Not with you, Mother. 347 00:28:23,980 --> 00:28:25,740 I don't want to leave you. 348 00:28:26,841 --> 00:28:28,241 My child... 349 00:28:29,005 --> 00:28:33,354 Your work, your sorrows, your life, they all belong to God. 350 00:28:33,857 --> 00:28:37,557 He alone exists - and loves us. 351 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,100 He guides us and we are in his hands. 352 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,777 Suzanne, the hand of God is on you. 353 00:28:44,178 --> 00:28:45,578 He safeguards you... 354 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:49,500 and leads you: in spite of yourself... 355 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,400 to the peace which passeth... 356 00:28:55,846 --> 00:28:57,425 all understanding. 357 00:29:01,420 --> 00:29:03,600 Dear child, what is it? 358 00:29:07,020 --> 00:29:10,400 Let God speak to you Himself, since I am dumb. 359 00:29:19,009 --> 00:29:21,309 The truth is I'm tired. 360 00:29:22,868 --> 00:29:25,551 I asked God not to see this day... 361 00:29:25,779 --> 00:29:27,787 but it was not his will. 362 00:29:29,660 --> 00:29:32,100 For the second time you'll be asked... 363 00:29:32,420 --> 00:29:35,300 to vow chastity, poverty and obedience. 364 00:29:36,180 --> 00:29:40,000 I'll spend the night in prayer. 365 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:43,200 You pray too. 366 00:29:50,475 --> 00:29:52,401 Allow me to pray with you. 367 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,905 I allow it from 9 to 11. Not longer. 368 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,420 Then let me pray alone. And take a rest. 369 00:30:02,020 --> 00:30:04,380 Go and sleep, Suzanne. 370 00:30:04,955 --> 00:30:06,455 I want you to. 371 00:30:18,455 --> 00:30:20,855 - Ave Maria. - Deo Gratias. 372 00:30:24,075 --> 00:30:26,575 - Ave Maria. - Deo Gratias. 373 00:30:28,615 --> 00:30:29,915 Ave Maria. 374 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:32,850 "God, have mercy upon me. 375 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,200 My heart trusts in you". 376 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,900 "Such were my lamentations 377 00:30:38,180 --> 00:30:40,400 to God whose bounty is great." 378 00:30:40,620 --> 00:30:43,500 "He sent his infinite mercy from Heaven. 379 00:30:43,819 --> 00:30:45,700 He saved me from among the lions... 380 00:30:45,940 --> 00:30:48,450 and gave me rest." 381 00:30:57,180 --> 00:31:01,700 God, if you have left me to punish me, so let it be. 382 00:31:03,020 --> 00:31:05,700 I do not ask you to restore my gift. 383 00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:08,800 but help that child Yourself. 384 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,300 Speak to her God. Speak to her parents. 385 00:31:13,020 --> 00:31:14,620 And forgive me. 386 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:29,200 You went to bed early? 387 00:31:29,301 --> 00:31:32,301 ... when you told me to. 388 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,780 - Did you sleep? - Very deeply. 389 00:31:35,984 --> 00:31:37,587 I expected that. 390 00:31:38,220 --> 00:31:40,100 How do you feel? 391 00:31:42,199 --> 00:31:43,551 Well... 392 00:31:44,070 --> 00:31:45,470 And you dear Mother? 393 00:31:46,540 --> 00:31:49,450 I am always anxious about new nuns... 394 00:31:50,479 --> 00:31:53,219 but never so anxious as with you. 395 00:31:53,820 --> 00:31:55,900 I would like you to be happy. 396 00:31:56,380 --> 00:31:59,100 So long as you're my friend, I shall. 397 00:32:00,380 --> 00:32:02,100 If it were only that... 398 00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:06,200 Did you think in bed? 399 00:32:06,301 --> 00:32:09,500 - No. - You did not dream? 400 00:32:09,801 --> 00:32:11,080 Not at all. 401 00:32:11,620 --> 00:32:13,900 What's happening to you? 402 00:32:14,597 --> 00:32:16,029 Nothing. 403 00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:20,300 I am abandoning myself... 404 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,691 to my destiny. 405 00:32:23,420 --> 00:32:25,800 I no longer have the strength to weep. 406 00:32:26,849 --> 00:32:29,987 "It must be done", my only thought. 407 00:32:32,740 --> 00:32:34,600 But you say nothing. 408 00:32:35,740 --> 00:32:38,500 I came not to talk but to see you. 409 00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:42,200 I must keep silent. 410 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,100 Rest a little longer, so I see you. 411 00:32:47,972 --> 00:32:50,571 Then I will go. God will do the rest. 412 00:33:01,531 --> 00:33:03,531 What time is it? 413 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,939 Six o'clock. 414 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,120 They will come to dress you. I must go... 415 00:33:11,421 --> 00:33:13,821 I must think alone. 416 00:33:39,396 --> 00:33:40,705 Raise your arm. 417 00:33:41,006 --> 00:33:42,306 Raise your arm. 418 00:33:46,189 --> 00:33:47,200 Turn your head. 419 00:33:47,701 --> 00:33:48,801 Turn your head. 420 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,796 Sister Jeanne. 421 00:34:38,276 --> 00:34:41,076 - Ave Maria. - Deo gratias. 422 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:44,300 You're in the choir, Suzanne? 423 00:34:44,460 --> 00:34:47,200 - Yes. - Choir for today's service. 424 00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:49,700 - The choir. - You must get ready. 425 00:34:50,795 --> 00:34:52,494 Sister Saintes-Agnes... 426 00:34:53,740 --> 00:34:57,100 - Have I really made my vows? - Yes, you are our sister. 427 00:35:06,980 --> 00:35:08,400 Mother... 428 00:35:08,570 --> 00:35:10,177 Is it true then? 429 00:35:11,444 --> 00:35:12,744 What do you mean? 430 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,509 Will you believe me, Mother, if I say... 431 00:35:16,654 --> 00:35:17,610 Well? 432 00:35:18,220 --> 00:35:20,800 I have no recollection of yesterday. 433 00:35:21,506 --> 00:35:24,253 I know not what I did or said. 434 00:35:24,588 --> 00:35:27,300 - You did and said well. - You believe me? 435 00:35:27,425 --> 00:35:29,349 That is not the question. 436 00:35:29,820 --> 00:35:32,900 You are Sister Suzanne, that is all. 437 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,500 How did she die? 438 00:35:51,020 --> 00:35:53,700 She had been with your eldest sister. 439 00:35:53,940 --> 00:35:56,100 Her health was poor. 440 00:35:57,637 --> 00:35:58,737 And she was worried. 441 00:36:00,260 --> 00:36:05,200 - She told you nothing more? - She told me to give you this. 442 00:36:10,180 --> 00:36:12,700 - You know my father's name? - No. 443 00:36:19,173 --> 00:36:21,006 You like your present life? 444 00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:23,981 Time passes... 445 00:36:25,420 --> 00:36:27,400 It's already autumn. 446 00:36:38,396 --> 00:36:41,958 "My child, this is not much... 447 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,600 the rest of my savings. 448 00:36:45,563 --> 00:36:47,063 Pray for me. 449 00:36:47,260 --> 00:36:50,050 Your birth was my only sin. 450 00:36:50,540 --> 00:36:52,400 Help me expiate it. 451 00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:58,200 Your mother's fate in the next world depends on your conduct in this life. 452 00:37:01,540 --> 00:37:04,300 Farewell, Suzanne. Ask nothing of your sisters. 453 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,400 Your father is already dead. 454 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,300 Farewell once more. 455 00:37:09,565 --> 00:37:11,900 Burn this letter. Remain a nun. 456 00:37:12,050 --> 00:37:14,850 The idea you might be alone in the world... 457 00:37:15,020 --> 00:37:17,400 would torture my last moments". 458 00:37:35,223 --> 00:37:37,224 Children, why are you weeping? 459 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,700 Come here and let me kiss you. 460 00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:50,901 Come. 461 00:37:55,499 --> 00:37:57,299 Jesus. 462 00:38:25,660 --> 00:38:28,300 Inspect these four cells. 463 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,800 Some have destroyed their hair-shirts. 464 00:38:30,980 --> 00:38:33,500 Some are hiding Bibles... 465 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,375 confiscate them. 466 00:38:49,180 --> 00:38:51,900 - What do you want? - Cell inspection. 467 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,100 - On what authority? - Orders of the Superior. 468 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,400 - Your hair-shirt? - I burnt it. 469 00:39:05,601 --> 00:39:06,750 Your scourage? 470 00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:09,800 I've thrown it away and told my sisters to. 471 00:39:10,897 --> 00:39:12,297 On whose authority? 472 00:39:12,420 --> 00:39:14,700 Mme de Moni said that flagellation.... 473 00:39:14,860 --> 00:39:18,340 corrected no sins and were a source of pride. 474 00:39:18,540 --> 00:39:20,300 Mme de Moni is dead. 475 00:39:20,460 --> 00:39:23,100 At least I can mourn her and try to obey her. 476 00:39:23,580 --> 00:39:26,300 Does that prevent you from singing tomorrow? 477 00:39:26,515 --> 00:39:30,019 I am not on choir duty tomorrow. 478 00:39:30,220 --> 00:39:33,300 From now on I keep strictly to the rules. 479 00:39:33,521 --> 00:39:35,121 You know them? 480 00:39:35,997 --> 00:39:37,397 Look at this. 481 00:39:38,220 --> 00:39:42,600 Our book of regulations. I know it by heart. 482 00:39:42,860 --> 00:39:46,500 These are the vows I made. No others. 483 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,020 Sisters, one of you has sinned gravely... 484 00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:00,440 and I must punish her severely. 485 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,600 Sister Sainte-Suzanne... 486 00:40:04,260 --> 00:40:07,500 you will kneel during service for a week... 487 00:40:08,420 --> 00:40:10,960 you will live on bread and water... 488 00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:13,660 remain shut up in your cell... 489 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,500 and assist the lay sisters with the menial tasks. 490 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:22,200 You are forbidden to approach any of your sisters... 491 00:40:22,810 --> 00:40:24,310 or to speak to them. 492 00:41:03,460 --> 00:41:06,100 Sister Suzanne, what do you think of Jansenism? 493 00:41:06,558 --> 00:41:09,358 Nothing. I know nothing of it. 494 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,500 And Monlinism? 495 00:41:11,901 --> 00:41:13,501 I know nothing about it... 496 00:41:13,860 --> 00:41:16,600 and do not want to hear about it. 497 00:41:16,780 --> 00:41:19,500 - You obey the Constitution? - I obey the Church. 498 00:41:19,660 --> 00:41:22,500 - You accept the Bull? - I accept the Gospel. 499 00:41:22,860 --> 00:41:27,100 But you must have an opinion. Reply frankly, without fear. 500 00:41:27,420 --> 00:41:31,600 I have no opinions but maintain I am a Christian. 501 00:41:34,987 --> 00:41:36,479 You may go. 502 00:41:56,340 --> 00:41:59,700 - What has happened? - Service is half an hour earlier. 503 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,900 How could I know in my cell? 504 00:42:02,060 --> 00:42:04,500 You should have know. You will be punished. 505 00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:18,400 "And the rest of her body was covered with pearls... 506 00:42:18,820 --> 00:42:23,900 and precious stones even as far as her shoes. 507 00:43:09,633 --> 00:43:11,333 Take a step in my direction... 508 00:43:11,740 --> 00:43:15,500 try to hold me back and you will be too late. 509 00:43:34,300 --> 00:43:35,800 Mother... 510 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,900 I need paper and ink to write my confession. 511 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,000 Could I have some more? I have much to write. 512 00:43:50,043 --> 00:43:51,843 You know, dear Mother. 513 00:43:55,860 --> 00:43:57,700 Thank you, Mother. 514 00:44:53,700 --> 00:44:55,400 Sister Suzanne, follow me. 515 00:45:02,500 --> 00:45:05,900 Here is your cell. The other is taken. 516 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,500 Undress and put this on. 517 00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,490 Sister Suzanne... 518 00:46:08,580 --> 00:46:11,500 Lying is not one of your faults. 519 00:46:12,392 --> 00:46:14,192 Tell me the truth. 520 00:46:15,020 --> 00:46:17,500 What have you done with the paper? 521 00:46:17,705 --> 00:46:19,619 I told you, Madam. 522 00:46:20,031 --> 00:46:21,731 It's not possible. 523 00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,900 It was a short confession for so much paper. 524 00:46:25,521 --> 00:46:26,921 True enough. 525 00:46:28,071 --> 00:46:31,771 - What did you do with it? - What I told you. 526 00:46:37,207 --> 00:46:41,207 Swear to me by your vows to God that it is true... 527 00:46:41,550 --> 00:46:43,372 and I will believe you. 528 00:46:43,580 --> 00:46:48,500 Madam, I cannot swear on such a trifling matter. 529 00:46:49,420 --> 00:46:51,500 I am not allowed to. 530 00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:53,400 You are deceiving me. 531 00:46:53,980 --> 00:46:56,100 You are running a great risk. 532 00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:00,755 What did you do with the paper? 533 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,422 Madam, I told you. 534 00:47:02,954 --> 00:47:05,533 - Where is it? - I don't know. 535 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,600 What have you done? 536 00:47:09,540 --> 00:47:12,600 Swear you used it all for your confession. 537 00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:15,600 Madam, concerning such a trifle... 538 00:47:16,687 --> 00:47:18,687 I cannot swear. 539 00:47:24,388 --> 00:47:25,841 Swear it... 540 00:47:25,950 --> 00:47:28,234 I shall not swear. 541 00:47:28,764 --> 00:47:30,738 - You won't - No, Madam. 542 00:47:31,106 --> 00:47:32,606 Then you're guilty. 543 00:47:32,723 --> 00:47:34,423 - Of what? - Of everything. 544 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,500 You are capable of anything... 545 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,900 you praised Mme de Moni to win her over. 546 00:47:42,220 --> 00:47:44,800 You have disobeyed the laws. 547 00:47:44,940 --> 00:47:48,500 Divided the community, failed in your duty. 548 00:47:49,140 --> 00:47:51,900 You've made me punish you... 549 00:47:52,140 --> 00:47:55,320 and those whom you have won over. 550 00:47:56,060 --> 00:48:00,300 I have been indulgent. I hoped you'd see your errors... 551 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,800 and return to the fold. 552 00:48:03,245 --> 00:48:05,045 You have not. 553 00:48:08,820 --> 00:48:11,700 There is something wrong in your mind. 554 00:48:13,185 --> 00:48:14,785 You have schemes. 555 00:48:15,780 --> 00:48:18,500 In the interest of all I must know what. 556 00:48:18,740 --> 00:48:20,540 And I shall know. 557 00:48:28,180 --> 00:48:30,000 Sister Suzanne... 558 00:48:32,450 --> 00:48:35,530 - I want the truth. - Madam, I have told you. 559 00:48:47,219 --> 00:48:50,265 I give you five seconds to decide... 560 00:48:51,140 --> 00:48:54,399 - I want the paper. - I haven't it. 561 00:48:54,805 --> 00:48:57,605 Swear you used it for confession. 562 00:48:57,820 --> 00:48:59,700 I cannot. 563 00:49:02,710 --> 00:49:04,404 Very good. 564 00:49:23,740 --> 00:49:25,400 Say what you wrote. 565 00:49:25,540 --> 00:49:28,200 - You're too kind... - You don't know her. 566 00:49:28,250 --> 00:49:29,450 Madam... 567 00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,800 I have done nothing against God or Man... 568 00:49:33,260 --> 00:49:36,400 - I swear it. - That's not what I want. 569 00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,500 She's written to the Archbishop... 570 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,180 - Now Sister Suzanne. - Madam, I'm at the end of all. 571 00:49:44,340 --> 00:49:46,000 I feel I am losing myself. 572 00:49:46,111 --> 00:49:48,411 A moment sooner or later. 573 00:49:48,860 --> 00:49:51,200 Do what you want with me. 574 00:49:57,700 --> 00:49:59,900 Let me kiss it once more... 575 00:50:07,140 --> 00:50:08,700 Have the bell rung. 576 00:50:09,380 --> 00:50:10,800 Let nobody be seen. 577 00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,900 Obey your Superior.... 578 00:50:27,020 --> 00:50:29,200 What do they want of me? 579 00:50:29,447 --> 00:50:31,347 Sister, there is a God. 580 00:50:43,180 --> 00:50:44,950 Our Mother is too kind. 581 00:50:45,060 --> 00:50:47,152 Only the third day... 582 00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:49,600 and it's too late. 583 00:50:49,740 --> 00:50:51,200 Let me be. 584 00:50:58,860 --> 00:51:01,295 I communed with God about you. 585 00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,800 He has softened my heart. 586 00:51:04,660 --> 00:51:07,000 Kneel and ask His forgiveness. 587 00:51:10,260 --> 00:51:14,100 Oh God, I ask forgiveness for my sins... 588 00:51:15,079 --> 00:51:17,543 as you did for me on the cross. 589 00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:19,800 She thinks she's Jesus! 590 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:21,347 That is not all. 591 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,500 Swear you will never speak of all this... 592 00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,100 Nobody will ever know of it... 593 00:51:33,653 --> 00:51:35,053 I swear to you. 594 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:11,140 We may never have the chance to talk again. 595 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,000 I've not read your statement but I guess... 596 00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,400 You know so many people. I don't know anybody. 597 00:52:19,260 --> 00:52:21,100 I don't want to compromise you... 598 00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,300 and get you into trouble. 599 00:52:24,539 --> 00:52:26,300 What can I do? 600 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:31,000 Pass this statement to a lawyer and get a reply. 601 00:52:31,490 --> 00:52:32,990 You want to leave? 602 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,300 But you would have to see lawyers... 603 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:39,344 Yes. 604 00:52:39,500 --> 00:52:42,000 - You would need liberty... - That is true. 605 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:46,580 - What about the persecution? - I shall be under the protection of the Law. 606 00:52:47,180 --> 00:52:48,900 I shall appear... 607 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,900 I shall be able to speak and complain. 608 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,600 And if you fail? 609 00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,300 I shall ask to be transferred... 610 00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:00,819 or die here. 611 00:53:01,220 --> 00:53:03,400 You suffer first. 612 00:53:03,550 --> 00:53:05,400 Whatever happens... 613 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,500 They cannot say I have a culpable passion. 614 00:53:08,819 --> 00:53:12,719 I see nobody. I ask to be free... 615 00:53:12,940 --> 00:53:16,400 because I did not sacrifice my liberty voluntarily. 616 00:53:17,698 --> 00:53:20,698 Don't worry. I'll do what I can. 617 00:53:21,940 --> 00:53:23,800 I know you're my friend. 618 00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,500 Ask for God's guidance. I'll pray for you. 619 00:53:35,380 --> 00:53:38,600 Holy week arrived, and many people attended our Martins. 620 00:53:38,700 --> 00:53:41,400 I sung well enough to have been... 621 00:53:41,500 --> 00:53:44,000 loudly applauded had I been... 622 00:53:44,100 --> 00:53:45,420 an actress in a theatre. 623 00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:56,120 My dear child... 624 00:53:59,659 --> 00:54:01,459 Dear Suzanne... 625 00:54:04,260 --> 00:54:05,600 Allow me, Sister... 626 00:54:21,420 --> 00:54:24,700 Mother, would you also give me back... 627 00:54:24,850 --> 00:54:26,529 Your locket? 628 00:54:26,918 --> 00:54:28,318 Yes, I agree. 629 00:54:38,498 --> 00:54:41,698 Sister Suzanne, a Mr Manouri is asking for you. 630 00:54:41,842 --> 00:54:43,442 He's your lawyer? 631 00:54:47,340 --> 00:54:49,600 We have leave from Rome. 632 00:54:54,540 --> 00:54:57,800 Shortly, your Superior will be advised that you... 633 00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:02,500 protest against your vows and wish to leave... 634 00:55:02,700 --> 00:55:06,600 the cloister - to be your own free agent. 635 00:55:09,260 --> 00:55:14,507 But in order to conduct this business... 636 00:55:14,980 --> 00:55:18,500 - I shall have to be able to see you. - We must arrange correspondence. 637 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:20,066 Another thing: 638 00:55:20,300 --> 00:55:24,100 Once the legal process starts, you will stay here... 639 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,200 abandoned to all the cruelty... 640 00:55:28,435 --> 00:55:29,935 I have thought of that. 641 00:55:30,260 --> 00:55:33,032 I am used to suffering. 642 00:55:33,580 --> 00:55:37,400 You will encounter opposition from all sides: 643 00:55:37,847 --> 00:55:39,447 The Law... 644 00:55:39,620 --> 00:55:42,400 The Convent - your Sisters... 645 00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:45,400 They've had the family fortune. 646 00:55:45,500 --> 00:55:48,900 Once free, you will be entitled to claim it. 647 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:54,460 - I can offer to waive my claim. - But a waiver made while you are still a nun... 648 00:55:54,720 --> 00:55:57,000 would be void once you are free. 649 00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,800 Moreover, could they decently accept it? 650 00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:05,000 To leave a sister without shelter - without mercy. 651 00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,300 What would people say? 652 00:56:07,739 --> 00:56:12,205 And supposing she married and had children? 653 00:56:13,340 --> 00:56:16,400 They will fight with all their power. 654 00:56:19,652 --> 00:56:21,152 Don't lose courage... 655 00:56:24,540 --> 00:56:28,100 I'll help you as much as I possibly can. 656 00:56:39,180 --> 00:56:42,200 - So you want to leave us? - Yes, Madam. 657 00:56:42,350 --> 00:56:44,800 - You deny your vows? - Yes, Madam. 658 00:56:45,220 --> 00:56:47,900 - Made freely? - No, Madam. 659 00:56:48,060 --> 00:56:49,950 - Your father? - My father. 660 00:56:50,350 --> 00:56:52,374 - Your mother? - She too. 661 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,882 - Who forced you? - Everyone. 662 00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:57,800 Why did you not protest then? 663 00:56:58,100 --> 00:57:02,080 I didn't know what I was doing. I don't remember. 664 00:57:03,860 --> 00:57:07,100 - How can you say this? - It's the truth. 665 00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,200 Will people believe it? 666 00:57:09,300 --> 00:57:12,735 Believe it or not, it's the truth. 667 00:57:15,060 --> 00:57:18,900 - Come, Suzanne, let's talk. - As you wish Mother. 668 00:57:22,540 --> 00:57:26,500 You know if one listened to such arguments... 669 00:57:27,100 --> 00:57:30,300 I was obliged to punish you... 670 00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,865 but the violation of an oath! 671 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,600 I violate nothing. I've sworn nothing. 672 00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:43,800 - Has not the wrong been put right? - It was not that... 673 00:57:43,930 --> 00:57:46,580 - What then? - The lack of vocation. 674 00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,200 And the forced vows. 675 00:57:49,380 --> 00:57:51,400 Why not say so then? 676 00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,100 The first time, I did so. 677 00:57:54,540 --> 00:57:57,500 The second time, I was unconscious... 678 00:57:58,211 --> 00:58:00,930 It is true you know, Mother. 679 00:58:02,470 --> 00:58:04,670 As a witness... 680 00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:09,000 - would you swear I was in my right mind? - I would. 681 00:58:09,411 --> 00:58:13,911 Then, Madam, you would commit perjury. 682 00:58:20,380 --> 00:58:22,600 Arousing a useless scandal... 683 00:58:23,140 --> 00:58:25,400 as this sort of thing does... 684 00:58:25,540 --> 00:58:27,900 - It's not my fault. - People are spiteful. 685 00:58:28,380 --> 00:58:31,500 They think the worst of you, your morals... 686 00:58:31,620 --> 00:58:34,800 Let them! My heart is pure. 687 00:58:34,900 --> 00:58:37,000 - Unbelievable... - Why, Madam? 688 00:58:37,380 --> 00:58:40,100 We have not all the same character. 689 00:58:40,260 --> 00:58:42,600 You like the convent life. I hate it. 690 00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:45,305 You've received God's grace. 691 00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:46,900 I have not. 692 00:58:47,020 --> 00:58:51,100 You would be lost in the outside world. 693 00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:55,100 I am lost here. I want to escape to the world. 694 00:58:55,500 --> 00:59:00,348 I was misled by Mme de Moni... but I'm tired of hypocrisy. 695 00:59:00,450 --> 00:59:03,100 My body is here but not my heart. 696 00:59:03,260 --> 00:59:05,980 I am and always will be a bad nun. 697 00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,600 Without regret you cannot give up... 698 00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:20,900 - Christ's vestments. - I can Madam, for I was not free to take them 699 00:59:21,340 --> 00:59:24,567 I'd like to tear them up... 700 00:59:25,700 --> 00:59:27,400 Dear God! What will our sisters say? 701 00:59:28,220 --> 00:59:31,060 - Then your minds made up? - I want to leave! 702 00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:35,400 - If it's the convent... - It's not the convent, it's me, it's religion. 703 00:59:35,580 --> 00:59:38,600 I just want freedom. 704 00:59:58,620 --> 01:00:00,760 You're possessed of the devil. 705 01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:03,950 He is speaking through you. 706 01:00:04,050 --> 01:00:08,070 I hate these clothes. I don't want to were them any more. 707 01:00:12,757 --> 01:00:14,657 Jesus... 708 01:00:25,660 --> 01:00:27,320 Madam... 709 01:00:29,660 --> 01:00:31,700 I am neither mad nor ill. 710 01:00:33,220 --> 01:00:35,500 I'm sorry to be violent... 711 01:00:37,140 --> 01:00:39,000 and ask your forgiveness. 712 01:00:41,369 --> 01:00:43,169 But judge by it... 713 01:00:43,420 --> 01:00:45,690 I want no more lies. 714 01:00:46,740 --> 01:00:50,800 I do what saves others. I detest and damn myself. 715 01:00:54,500 --> 01:00:56,560 You want to avoid scandal? 716 01:01:01,060 --> 01:01:02,700 There's a way: 717 01:01:05,220 --> 01:01:07,900 I don't ask you to open the gates... 718 01:01:10,519 --> 01:01:14,000 - but to see they are not guarded. - You are mad! 719 01:01:14,100 --> 01:01:15,372 Listen, Madam... 720 01:01:16,060 --> 01:01:18,620 If my liberty is refused me... 721 01:01:19,060 --> 01:01:21,100 I shall be so disparate that... 722 01:01:21,420 --> 01:01:23,043 I shall kill myself. 723 01:01:23,497 --> 01:01:26,901 Kill myself. 724 01:01:35,662 --> 01:01:37,762 Sister, go to the chapel... 725 01:01:38,340 --> 01:01:42,000 and ask God to cleanse your spirit. 726 01:01:43,660 --> 01:01:46,017 Examine your conscience. 727 01:01:47,620 --> 01:01:49,400 You need not sing. 728 01:02:04,740 --> 01:02:09,100 Sisters let us ask God's mercy... for a nun he has abandoned... 729 01:02:09,740 --> 01:02:12,800 who is about to commit sacrilege... 730 01:02:12,900 --> 01:02:14,900 shameful in men's eyes. 731 01:02:16,724 --> 01:02:18,524 Sister Suzanne... 732 01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,780 till further orders you will perform no duties... 733 01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:24,260 will not be served... 734 01:02:24,660 --> 01:02:26,700 will knell in chapel... 735 01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,500 will not be spoken to... 736 01:02:30,700 --> 01:02:34,600 helped or even approached. 737 01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:38,300 She will not touch what you use. 738 01:02:46,100 --> 01:02:49,500 For her salvation let us recite the Litanies, and then 739 01:02:49,740 --> 01:02:52,800 prayers for the dying. 740 01:03:31,473 --> 01:03:33,173 Sister St Joseph... 741 01:03:34,826 --> 01:03:36,826 Get out. Go away! 742 01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,869 - What do you want? - I am hungry. 743 01:03:40,620 --> 01:03:42,720 You're not fit to live. 744 01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:43,800 Walk over her - a corpse. 745 01:05:13,740 --> 01:05:15,000 Go away. 746 01:05:17,110 --> 01:05:18,310 Further. 747 01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:22,800 What do you want? 748 01:05:22,900 --> 01:05:26,200 Madam, neither God nor man has condemned me to die. 749 01:05:27,420 --> 01:05:29,500 Give orders for me to live. 750 01:05:30,845 --> 01:05:32,145 Are you worthy to? 751 01:05:32,970 --> 01:05:34,570 Only God knows that. 752 01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:38,600 I am only waiting here. Until my fate is decided. 753 01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:40,271 Very well. 754 01:05:41,260 --> 01:05:42,700 I'll see to it. 755 01:05:59,660 --> 01:06:02,280 They tried to stop me from seeing you. 756 01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,900 They didn't know what had happened. 757 01:06:05,217 --> 01:06:06,217 I am a prisoner. 758 01:06:07,309 --> 01:06:08,609 I cannot go out. 759 01:06:09,980 --> 01:06:11,800 I have nothing to eat. 760 01:06:12,660 --> 01:06:14,800 The sisters throw me scraps... 761 01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:18,300 strew broken glass on the floor. 762 01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:21,400 They've taken my rosary. 763 01:06:22,420 --> 01:06:25,200 They say that I am mad. 764 01:06:27,300 --> 01:06:28,700 They want to exorcise me. 765 01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:30,977 Speak louder. I can't hear. 766 01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:36,100 As for you sir, don't believe her lies. Utter lies all! 767 01:06:36,740 --> 01:06:40,500 They can't stop me seeing you. The law is on my side in this... 768 01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:42,420 Or I hope so. 769 01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:47,650 For the rest - I'm powerless. You must be patient. 770 01:06:47,820 --> 01:06:50,600 Your time is finished. Sorry. 771 01:06:55,100 --> 01:06:56,977 - She said what? - She's possessed. 772 01:07:27,820 --> 01:07:29,440 Sister, don't hurt me. 773 01:07:37,860 --> 01:07:39,300 What did you do? 774 01:07:39,901 --> 01:07:41,301 - Devil. - Satan. 775 01:07:42,302 --> 01:07:43,502 Satan. 776 01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:45,140 - Impure - Satan. 777 01:07:57,300 --> 01:08:00,220 Oh my God! Listen to me! 778 01:08:01,180 --> 01:08:02,560 Come to my aid. 779 01:08:02,761 --> 01:08:04,261 There's no God for you. 780 01:08:04,620 --> 01:08:05,760 Be damned and say so. 781 01:08:06,861 --> 01:08:08,361 Amen to that. 782 01:08:08,962 --> 01:08:10,462 - Amen to her. - Amen 783 01:08:13,463 --> 01:08:14,963 Gentlemen, let's be brief. 784 01:08:16,460 --> 01:08:19,540 An appeal was launched on behalf of Suzanne... 785 01:08:19,940 --> 01:08:21,120 against the validity of her vows. 786 01:08:21,580 --> 01:08:25,760 We have discussed this matter and summoned to this hearing... 787 01:08:25,940 --> 01:08:29,700 Suzanne's witnesses and the convent - the other party. 788 01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,180 I would ask both sides to be brief. 789 01:08:33,300 --> 01:08:36,240 Here are two letters - written by her... 790 01:08:36,500 --> 01:08:39,480 to her mother saying she wants to be a nun.... 791 01:08:39,660 --> 01:08:42,660 and to Mme de Moni, thanking her... 792 01:08:42,780 --> 01:08:45,380 I lodge a memorandum of exorcism. 793 01:08:46,020 --> 01:08:49,520 We have discussed the matter and are unanimous. 794 01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:52,279 She has renounced God. 795 01:08:52,380 --> 01:08:55,100 She is possessed by the devil. 796 01:08:55,460 --> 01:08:57,500 The detailed accusation are there. 797 01:08:57,700 --> 01:09:01,240 She no longer wears a rosary and she blasphemes. 798 01:09:01,341 --> 01:09:04,141 Three days ago she attacked a novice... 799 01:09:04,820 --> 01:09:08,060 Judge for yourselves. I bow to the tribunal. 800 01:09:08,300 --> 01:09:11,720 I am tried of all this convent nonsense.... 801 01:09:11,980 --> 01:09:14,820 We know by experience, that our authority is eluded. 802 01:09:15,580 --> 01:09:17,020 But this is serious. 803 01:09:17,180 --> 01:09:20,300 Moreover, there is the appeal... 804 01:09:20,660 --> 01:09:21,800 lodged in the courts. 805 01:09:21,980 --> 01:09:24,460 I don't attach great importance to it, but... 806 01:09:26,140 --> 01:09:28,920 we'll go to Longchamp, see the sister... 807 01:09:29,740 --> 01:09:31,540 and decide on the exorcism. 808 01:09:51,500 --> 01:09:52,400 Get up. 809 01:09:54,100 --> 01:09:56,360 Kneel and condemn your soul to God. 810 01:09:57,740 --> 01:09:58,840 Madam... 811 01:09:59,880 --> 01:10:00,820 before I obey you.... 812 01:10:01,460 --> 01:10:02,900 what have you decided about me? 813 01:10:04,501 --> 01:10:06,501 What must I ask God? 814 01:10:11,559 --> 01:10:13,759 What grace must I ask for? 815 01:10:14,660 --> 01:10:16,700 His forgiveness for all your sins. 816 01:10:16,901 --> 01:10:19,301 As at the Last Judgment. 817 01:10:38,500 --> 01:10:39,440 Stand her up. 818 01:10:47,499 --> 01:10:49,499 As she won't commend herself to God... 819 01:10:49,700 --> 01:10:53,520 - you know what to do. - Let me kiss the Cross. 820 01:12:15,499 --> 01:12:16,599 Move on, I tell you. 821 01:12:19,700 --> 01:12:21,880 God have pity on me. 822 01:12:22,460 --> 01:12:25,820 Oh God, forgive me if I have done wrong. 823 01:12:27,660 --> 01:12:28,960 God have mercy upon me! 824 01:13:16,300 --> 01:13:19,380 Sister Suzanne, stand up. 825 01:13:22,081 --> 01:13:23,781 - Untie her. - She's dangerous. 826 01:13:23,882 --> 01:13:25,382 Untie her. 827 01:13:33,740 --> 01:13:34,780 Remove that veil. 828 01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,800 Sister Suzanne, do you believe in God? 829 01:13:50,901 --> 01:13:51,901 I believe. 830 01:13:52,002 --> 01:13:53,602 And in the Holy Church? 831 01:13:53,900 --> 01:13:56,500 - I believe. - Do you renounce... 832 01:14:03,420 --> 01:14:06,340 - What is it? - Someone pricked me when... 833 01:14:06,620 --> 01:14:07,760 Silence, wretch! 834 01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:22,420 - Do you renounce Satan and his works? - Yes, I renounce them. 835 01:14:23,780 --> 01:14:24,620 I renounce them. 836 01:14:36,260 --> 01:14:38,840 I order you to pray aloud. 837 01:14:44,739 --> 01:14:45,739 My God... 838 01:14:47,140 --> 01:14:48,000 My Savior... 839 01:14:49,700 --> 01:14:51,940 who died on the Cross for me... 840 01:14:52,879 --> 01:14:53,879 I worship you. 841 01:14:55,521 --> 01:14:57,921 Let a drop of your blood fall on me... 842 01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:00,340 that I may be purified. 843 01:15:01,860 --> 01:15:06,600 Forgive me God as I forgive my enemies. 844 01:15:28,619 --> 01:15:29,619 Madam... 845 01:15:30,620 --> 01:15:31,620 Stay there. 846 01:15:39,620 --> 01:15:41,000 Stand, Sister Suzanne. 847 01:15:49,159 --> 01:15:51,959 These are the charges. Reply to them fearlessly. 848 01:15:56,260 --> 01:15:58,520 - Why don't you confess? - I'm not allowed. 849 01:15:58,700 --> 01:16:00,540 Or approach the Host? 850 01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,880 - Not allowed. - Or attend mass? 851 01:16:02,881 --> 01:16:04,181 - They stop me. - You know well... 852 01:16:04,182 --> 01:16:05,182 Silence, Madam. 853 01:16:05,783 --> 01:16:07,283 Why do you leave your cell at night? 854 01:16:07,940 --> 01:16:10,880 - They give me no water or... - Why were you bound? 855 01:16:11,281 --> 01:16:13,481 - I don't know. - Why doesn't your cell shut? 856 01:16:13,682 --> 01:16:15,682 - I broke the lock. - Why? 857 01:16:15,820 --> 01:16:17,960 To be able to go to mass. 858 01:16:20,361 --> 01:16:22,461 - So you went to Church? - Yes, sir. 859 01:16:22,540 --> 01:16:24,280 The entire community will... 860 01:16:24,581 --> 01:16:27,081 swear that the door was closed... 861 01:16:27,420 --> 01:16:31,180 that they found me there and you told them to walk on me. 862 01:16:31,340 --> 01:16:34,580 - It's not true. - Madam, I already told you to be quiet. 863 01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:36,300 Your rosary? 864 01:16:36,559 --> 01:16:37,659 - Taken away. - Prayer book? 865 01:16:38,460 --> 01:16:39,500 - Taken away. - How do you pray? 866 01:16:39,660 --> 01:16:42,700 By heart but I am forbidden to pray. 867 01:16:42,900 --> 01:16:44,300 Who forbade you? 868 01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:46,120 Madam. 869 01:16:50,460 --> 01:16:51,500 Madam... 870 01:16:52,300 --> 01:16:54,880 Did you forbid her to pray, yes or no? 871 01:16:55,381 --> 01:16:56,181 I had reason to think... 872 01:16:57,100 --> 01:16:59,540 An answer, yes or no? 873 01:17:02,460 --> 01:17:04,100 I forbade her. 874 01:17:07,740 --> 01:17:10,080 Sister Suzanne, why are you barefoot? 875 01:17:11,220 --> 01:17:14,520 - I've no shoes or... - Your clothes so dirty? 876 01:17:14,721 --> 01:17:17,121 - I sleep in them. - Why? 877 01:17:18,722 --> 01:17:21,122 - I have no linen. - Why not? 878 01:17:21,300 --> 01:17:23,140 - Taken away. - Do you have food? 879 01:17:23,341 --> 01:17:25,041 I have to beg for it. 880 01:17:26,442 --> 01:17:27,442 Then you're not fed. 881 01:17:33,380 --> 01:17:36,180 To warrant such punishment what was your crime? 882 01:17:36,500 --> 01:17:40,140 I had no vocation and denied my vows... 883 01:17:40,340 --> 01:17:42,940 That's a matter for the Law to decide. 884 01:17:44,140 --> 01:17:46,980 In the meantime you must do your duty... 885 01:17:48,281 --> 01:17:49,481 Have you any complaint against anyone? 886 01:17:50,382 --> 01:17:52,682 No, sir. 887 01:17:53,900 --> 01:17:56,580 I am here to defend myself, not accuse. 888 01:17:58,380 --> 01:17:59,520 - You may go. - Where must I go? 889 01:18:00,221 --> 01:18:01,321 Back to your cell. 890 01:18:12,022 --> 01:18:13,722 Go along. 891 01:18:14,660 --> 01:18:16,640 I shall now interrogate Madam. 892 01:18:17,241 --> 01:18:19,541 I'll see that order is restored. 893 01:18:50,300 --> 01:18:54,480 What a list of diabolical horrors. Unbelievable. 894 01:18:54,740 --> 01:18:56,580 I agree Monseigneur, but true. 895 01:18:57,140 --> 01:19:00,060 Christians! The women is not worthy. 896 01:19:00,061 --> 01:19:02,961 She deserves to be dismissed, Monseigneur... 897 01:19:03,420 --> 01:19:06,660 - And yet, you know, she won't be. - Who will stop you? 898 01:19:06,900 --> 01:19:07,880 Nobody. 899 01:19:08,460 --> 01:19:11,640 Madam certainly thought she did her duty. 900 01:19:12,741 --> 01:19:15,141 I used to know her father. 901 01:19:15,540 --> 01:19:19,680 An aristocratic military family poor but proud. 902 01:19:20,260 --> 01:19:22,540 Her three brothers are officers. 903 01:19:22,780 --> 01:19:25,020 The youngest was killed last year. 904 01:19:26,860 --> 01:19:29,240 I see this child appealed to you. 905 01:19:30,340 --> 01:19:32,500 Don't protest. It's no crime. 906 01:19:36,180 --> 01:19:38,100 And her petition? 907 01:19:38,820 --> 01:19:41,960 I think the court should reject it. 908 01:19:42,140 --> 01:19:44,520 - Without enquiry? - What else can be done? 909 01:19:44,940 --> 01:19:48,440 Her friends have stirred up too much trouble. 910 01:19:48,900 --> 01:19:51,700 What would people think if we were lax? 911 01:19:51,940 --> 01:19:56,660 Yes, alas. Already our philosophers are writing: 912 01:19:58,740 --> 01:20:01,981 "If the prison gates were open to one victim.... 913 01:20:02,660 --> 01:20:05,820 the mob would force its way into them." 914 01:20:06,020 --> 01:20:09,960 They must be considered right. Don't worry for Suzanne. 915 01:20:10,140 --> 01:20:13,720 The lawyer will appeal - and the courts decide. 916 01:20:14,300 --> 01:20:16,260 The decision will be theirs... 917 01:20:16,460 --> 01:20:20,340 - You will abide by it? - Let's hope it is a wise one. 918 01:20:21,300 --> 01:20:24,340 Let us further consider the Simonin affair. 919 01:20:58,980 --> 01:21:01,060 You have a visitor. 920 01:21:26,500 --> 01:21:28,380 Your lawyer sent me. 921 01:21:28,781 --> 01:21:31,081 - I have lost... - I know nothing. 922 01:21:31,282 --> 01:21:33,282 He gave me this letter. 923 01:21:36,083 --> 01:21:39,383 - Is there a reply? - No. You can go... 924 01:21:46,584 --> 01:21:47,484 Suzanne... 925 01:22:29,900 --> 01:22:31,180 Did you read it? 926 01:22:31,900 --> 01:22:34,140 I received it. I did not read it. 927 01:22:35,141 --> 01:22:36,941 - Then you... - No, sir. 928 01:22:37,842 --> 01:22:39,242 I guessed what it contained. 929 01:22:41,143 --> 01:22:42,743 If I can help you... 930 01:22:43,980 --> 01:22:47,680 I could see the Church dignitaries... 931 01:22:48,681 --> 01:22:49,681 Don't trouble. 932 01:22:50,740 --> 01:22:51,980 It's all over now. 933 01:22:52,180 --> 01:22:55,580 No. At least change convents. 934 01:22:57,581 --> 01:23:00,181 Many good people are interested in you. 935 01:23:00,780 --> 01:23:03,960 Some are wealthy and would provide for you. 936 01:23:05,140 --> 01:23:07,180 You can leave here. 937 01:23:08,460 --> 01:23:11,940 These good people have forgotten about me. 938 01:23:12,141 --> 01:23:15,041 - You must leave... - I ask for nothing. 939 01:23:15,742 --> 01:23:18,642 I hope for nothing and I resist nothing. 940 01:23:20,340 --> 01:23:24,380 If only God could change me... but it's impossible. 941 01:23:25,881 --> 01:23:29,381 The robe is now apart of my flesh and bone. 942 01:23:30,082 --> 01:23:31,682 I hate this life. 943 01:23:32,583 --> 01:23:34,583 I feel myself hating it. 944 01:23:34,980 --> 01:23:36,600 You must transfer. 945 01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,140 I'll visit you again. 946 01:23:40,941 --> 01:23:42,441 You must leave here. 947 01:24:11,342 --> 01:24:13,342 How are they treating you? 948 01:24:13,343 --> 01:24:15,343 - Coldly. - So much the better. 949 01:24:16,100 --> 01:24:20,120 Please send for the Superior... so she can hear. 950 01:24:20,460 --> 01:24:22,500 - Go on speaking. - You'll ruin me. 951 01:24:22,601 --> 01:24:26,201 Don't worry. You're no longer under her authority. 952 01:24:27,340 --> 01:24:30,460 Before the week is out, you'll be transferred... 953 01:24:31,510 --> 01:24:33,070 You have a friend? 954 01:24:33,671 --> 01:24:34,771 Your lawyer. 955 01:24:35,230 --> 01:24:36,710 - Mr. Monouri? - Himself. 956 01:24:37,870 --> 01:24:41,110 As he has seen the Archbishop and other people. 957 01:24:41,311 --> 01:24:44,811 He has provided money for your admission. 958 01:24:46,150 --> 01:24:49,990 If there is anything wrong, I order you to tell me. 959 01:24:51,091 --> 01:24:52,191 I know of nothing. 960 01:24:52,510 --> 01:24:55,170 I order you by your holy vows.... 961 01:24:58,271 --> 01:24:59,071 Very good. 962 01:25:03,110 --> 01:25:06,150 I would ask you to keep this to yourself. 963 01:25:19,511 --> 01:25:22,711 - How do you know Manouri? - Through my case. 964 01:25:23,250 --> 01:25:26,750 - Seen him often? - Oh no, very seldom. 965 01:25:26,851 --> 01:25:29,351 And since you lost your case? 966 01:25:29,552 --> 01:25:32,052 - Just once. - Has he written? 967 01:25:32,253 --> 01:25:33,753 - No, sir. - Have you written him? 968 01:25:33,954 --> 01:25:34,954 No, sir. 969 01:25:35,155 --> 01:25:37,255 He will want to tell you all. 970 01:25:38,270 --> 01:25:40,310 I order you not to see him. 971 01:25:40,590 --> 01:25:43,790 If he writes send me his letter unopened. 972 01:25:45,450 --> 01:25:46,190 You understand? 973 01:25:46,830 --> 01:25:48,830 Unopened. 974 01:25:49,290 --> 01:25:52,030 Yes, sir. I shall obey. 975 01:26:05,231 --> 01:26:06,531 How pretty. 976 01:26:38,970 --> 01:26:40,310 Sit down my child. 977 01:26:42,711 --> 01:26:44,511 - Pardon, Sir. - Granted. 978 01:26:46,870 --> 01:26:49,030 You have been told about this poor child? 979 01:26:49,231 --> 01:26:52,131 They are wrong, I am sure. She is sweet. 980 01:26:53,032 --> 01:26:55,132 - The Church you see... - Pardon, Sir. 981 01:26:56,310 --> 01:27:00,250 owing to the diversity of its convents, enables... 982 01:27:00,430 --> 01:27:03,870 - You are adorable. - it's members to find their... 983 01:27:04,110 --> 01:27:07,550 place in this great body. Everyone should try... 984 01:27:07,830 --> 01:27:12,510 When these pendants are gone, you'll sing us a little song, eh? 985 01:27:12,750 --> 01:27:17,890 try to discover a place assigned to him by... 986 01:27:18,091 --> 01:27:20,591 the Creator of all things. 987 01:27:22,392 --> 01:27:23,692 Come sit down... 988 01:27:25,790 --> 01:27:26,910 Let me speak. 989 01:27:36,390 --> 01:27:38,630 On changing convents you should... 990 01:27:39,070 --> 01:27:41,770 - renew your vows. - It shall be done, Monseigneur. 991 01:27:43,651 --> 01:27:45,351 Your benefice must go in charity. 992 01:27:45,590 --> 01:27:48,550 - A little more chocolate? - We are sorry for the past. 993 01:27:48,670 --> 01:27:51,210 - A jam tart? - Please sit down. 994 01:27:51,390 --> 01:27:54,930 - and will do our best... - Poor child. It's all over... 995 01:27:55,031 --> 01:27:57,231 Here she shall do what she likes. 996 01:27:57,332 --> 01:28:00,432 - Liqeur? or fruit? - No thank you. 997 01:28:02,533 --> 01:28:03,933 It's getting late. 998 01:28:09,070 --> 01:28:11,150 Poor child, was it awful? 999 01:28:11,670 --> 01:28:14,190 I knew your Superior. We were at school... 1000 01:28:18,430 --> 01:28:21,330 together at Port-Royal. Horrible! 1001 01:28:21,670 --> 01:28:23,110 We'll talk about it later. 1002 01:28:39,230 --> 01:28:42,550 I just wanted to see if you were comfortable. 1003 01:28:44,190 --> 01:28:46,270 There my darling will pray. 1004 01:28:47,590 --> 01:28:49,430 You must have a cushion. 1005 01:28:55,770 --> 01:28:57,050 Is this armchair to your liking? 1006 01:29:03,990 --> 01:29:06,410 The sheets are not very fine... 1007 01:29:06,950 --> 01:29:08,130 Good mattress. 1008 01:29:29,710 --> 01:29:31,470 Oh, you must be tired. 1009 01:29:34,971 --> 01:29:37,271 sleep as long as you like. 1010 01:30:00,590 --> 01:30:04,050 It is late, Suzanne. Mother wants to see you... 1011 01:30:14,150 --> 01:30:16,910 Good morning Suzanne. Did you sleep well? 1012 01:30:19,569 --> 01:30:21,769 The coffee was made an hour ago. 1013 01:30:21,970 --> 01:30:23,470 I hope it is good. 1014 01:30:25,071 --> 01:30:26,071 To bad its cold. 1015 01:30:31,273 --> 01:30:32,273 Hurry up... 1016 01:30:33,910 --> 01:30:34,750 and then we'll have a talk. 1017 01:30:35,590 --> 01:30:38,030 - Your mother is dead? - A year ago. 1018 01:30:38,231 --> 01:30:40,531 - Your father? - Just before... 1019 01:30:40,790 --> 01:30:42,710 I have two sisters... 1020 01:30:42,910 --> 01:30:46,910 They say you are full of talent and wit... 1021 01:30:49,550 --> 01:30:52,530 Did you hear Ursula sing the Gloria? 1022 01:30:52,710 --> 01:30:55,650 - You know I didn't. - She's jealous of Dorothy. 1023 01:30:55,970 --> 01:30:58,910 Sister Clement, during the Gospel, did this. 1024 01:31:07,750 --> 01:31:11,470 Come along, Suzanne. Play to us, and then sing... 1025 01:31:38,590 --> 01:31:41,870 That's all very well for the church, but here... 1026 01:31:42,750 --> 01:31:46,910 we're among friends. Sing something gay. 1027 01:31:47,111 --> 01:31:49,211 - She doesn't know... - She's tired.. 1028 01:31:49,510 --> 01:31:53,050 No she must sing. She has the most lovely voice. 1029 01:31:53,290 --> 01:31:55,230 I know nothing. 1030 01:31:55,390 --> 01:31:57,430 You remember what they sing in society. 1031 01:31:57,790 --> 01:31:59,270 Not so long ago. 1032 01:31:59,390 --> 01:32:02,590 It seems so long ago. I never went out. 1033 01:32:02,790 --> 01:32:05,990 - Do you know "Plaisir d'Amour"? - My sisters used to sing it. 1034 01:33:17,651 --> 01:33:20,351 - I'd say Ursula... - Has a nobler... 1035 01:33:20,750 --> 01:33:23,570 Nonsense. She plays and sings like an angel. 1036 01:33:23,770 --> 01:33:25,910 She must give me lessons. 1037 01:33:26,490 --> 01:33:28,670 I used to play the harpsichord. 1038 01:33:28,910 --> 01:33:31,990 I'm not competent. 1039 01:34:05,630 --> 01:34:07,550 How does your pupil play? 1040 01:34:07,790 --> 01:34:10,010 Her touch is lighter than mine. 1041 01:34:10,910 --> 01:34:12,850 But your hands are sweeter. 1042 01:34:13,250 --> 01:34:16,530 Therese, look at her pretty fingers... 1043 01:34:17,631 --> 01:34:19,031 Don't lower your eyes. 1044 01:34:19,330 --> 01:34:20,550 Look at me. 1045 01:34:20,951 --> 01:34:22,051 Look at me. 1046 01:34:23,990 --> 01:34:26,550 Your Superior must know your thoughts. 1047 01:34:26,990 --> 01:34:30,730 You must hide nothing. Tell me everything. Won't you? 1048 01:34:30,870 --> 01:34:34,510 If you don't... I'll whip you. 1049 01:34:35,411 --> 01:34:37,611 Therese go if you're bored. 1050 01:34:37,712 --> 01:34:38,612 I'm not bored. 1051 01:34:39,030 --> 01:34:41,590 - I've so many things to ask. - Quite so. 1052 01:34:41,790 --> 01:34:46,590 I must know all about her. She must tell me of her suffering. 1053 01:34:49,910 --> 01:34:52,630 I'm sure I shall weep, but then... 1054 01:34:54,350 --> 01:34:57,790 - Suzanne, when shall I know everything? - When you say. 1055 01:34:57,991 --> 01:34:59,791 Now then if we have time. What time is it? 1056 01:34:59,992 --> 01:35:02,092 It's ten o'clock. Time for Church. 1057 01:35:02,193 --> 01:35:03,893 - Go on then. - Yes, Madam... 1058 01:35:04,710 --> 01:35:06,910 but you promised me a moment with you before... 1059 01:35:07,510 --> 01:35:09,250 I have worrying thoughts. 1060 01:35:09,550 --> 01:35:13,290 If I go to church without telling you, I can't pray. 1061 01:35:13,670 --> 01:35:16,830 Nonsense. We'll speak of it tomorrow. 1062 01:35:17,270 --> 01:35:21,430 - Dear, Mother! - Madam, please grant my sister what she asks. 1063 01:35:21,690 --> 01:35:23,670 My story can wait. 1064 01:35:23,971 --> 01:35:25,971 Hear her and put her at ease. 1065 01:35:26,272 --> 01:35:28,272 - You annoy me... - I know it... 1066 01:35:28,473 --> 01:35:31,573 You embarrass me. I don't want to be... 1067 01:35:31,874 --> 01:35:32,774 I know that... 1068 01:35:35,550 --> 01:35:37,750 I can't govern my feelings. 1069 01:35:38,670 --> 01:35:41,510 I'd like to - but I can not. 1070 01:36:35,950 --> 01:36:38,030 Sister, what is the matter? 1071 01:36:42,131 --> 01:36:43,631 Why do you avoid me? 1072 01:36:43,832 --> 01:36:46,032 Can't our Mother love both of us? 1073 01:36:46,250 --> 01:36:49,190 No... it's not possible. 1074 01:36:51,030 --> 01:36:52,530 Why did you have to come here? 1075 01:36:53,110 --> 01:36:55,170 You won't be happy long I assure you. 1076 01:36:55,471 --> 01:36:58,571 - And I shall suffer always. - But what do you fear? 1077 01:36:59,230 --> 01:37:02,770 That I shall turn her against you? 1078 01:37:03,071 --> 01:37:04,371 You don't know me. 1079 01:37:04,572 --> 01:37:06,672 It's not your fault. 1080 01:37:08,310 --> 01:37:10,050 - But promise... - What shall I promise? 1081 01:37:12,051 --> 01:37:13,451 Promise me you... 1082 01:37:19,150 --> 01:37:22,590 - won't see her much. - But why? I assure you... 1083 01:37:22,891 --> 01:37:24,191 I am lost. 1084 01:37:25,710 --> 01:37:28,050 What are you girls plotting? 1085 01:37:28,351 --> 01:37:32,051 Mother, excuse me for coming here without permission. 1086 01:37:32,150 --> 01:37:34,670 Yes, you should have asked. 1087 01:37:34,910 --> 01:37:37,850 I wanted to console my sister. 1088 01:37:37,951 --> 01:37:39,351 What is it, for God's sake? 1089 01:37:40,852 --> 01:37:43,252 She was worried about your kindness to me. 1090 01:37:43,990 --> 01:37:46,710 She feared I was supplanting her. 1091 01:37:47,710 --> 01:37:52,190 This quite natural feeling of jealousy... 1092 01:37:53,270 --> 01:37:57,350 so flattering to you was torturing her. So I reassured her. 1093 01:37:58,590 --> 01:38:03,030 Sister Therese, I had and still have a liking for you... 1094 01:38:03,650 --> 01:38:06,570 but I will not have this jealousy. 1095 01:38:07,030 --> 01:38:11,470 Get rid of it. Unless you want to destroy my love for you. 1096 01:38:12,071 --> 01:38:14,571 Remember the fate of Agatha... 1097 01:38:15,972 --> 01:38:18,772 the one opposite me in choir... 1098 01:38:19,373 --> 01:38:21,773 You know how kind I am, my child. 1099 01:38:22,550 --> 01:38:25,350 Don't make me punish you. It hurts me... 1100 01:38:26,230 --> 01:38:28,590 Sister Suzanne, come with me... 1101 01:38:36,110 --> 01:38:39,450 You, go to your cell, and stay there. 1102 01:38:42,390 --> 01:38:43,630 Dear Mother... 1103 01:38:44,590 --> 01:38:49,410 please pardon Sister Therese. She lost her head. She's distraught. 1104 01:38:49,611 --> 01:38:51,611 And suppose I pardon her... 1105 01:38:52,230 --> 01:38:55,570 - what will you give me? - I have nothing. 1106 01:38:56,071 --> 01:38:57,471 Let me kiss you. 1107 01:39:07,372 --> 01:39:10,272 It's too late to begin your story, but... 1108 01:39:10,630 --> 01:39:12,670 you can give me a lesson. 1109 01:39:18,771 --> 01:39:20,271 Go back... 1110 01:39:20,690 --> 01:39:24,310 Go back to your cell quickly. It's better you do. 1111 01:40:08,590 --> 01:40:09,330 Mother... 1112 01:40:09,631 --> 01:40:11,531 - thank you. - What for? 1113 01:40:11,732 --> 01:40:12,798 The glass. 1114 01:40:12,833 --> 01:40:15,333 Don't mention it. It's against the rules... 1115 01:40:16,034 --> 01:40:16,934 but... 1116 01:40:23,609 --> 01:40:24,409 Suzanne... 1117 01:40:24,910 --> 01:40:27,250 I've been thinking about this Longchamp affair. 1118 01:40:27,930 --> 01:40:29,730 I have a proposal to make you. 1119 01:40:30,531 --> 01:40:33,431 - You owe your dowry to charity? - Yes, Mother. 1120 01:40:33,632 --> 01:40:35,732 Longchamp kept the other? 1121 01:40:35,870 --> 01:40:38,110 - Yes. - Paid nothing back? 1122 01:40:38,211 --> 01:40:40,411 - No, Mother. - It's not right. 1123 01:40:40,490 --> 01:40:42,530 You are entitled to claim it back, you know 1124 01:40:43,631 --> 01:40:45,031 Well, Suzanne? 1125 01:40:46,390 --> 01:40:47,770 What must we do? 1126 01:40:48,390 --> 01:40:51,370 Sue Longchamp for the money in your name. 1127 01:40:51,590 --> 01:40:55,230 We'll pay the costs and share it. What do you think? 1128 01:40:55,930 --> 01:40:57,110 Now then, girls. 1129 01:40:58,611 --> 01:41:00,111 What do you say? 1130 01:41:01,312 --> 01:41:02,312 You're dreaming. 1131 01:41:02,630 --> 01:41:07,130 Yes, I'm think that my name will again be bandied about... 1132 01:41:07,650 --> 01:41:11,390 in the court rooms... More details and scandal... 1133 01:41:11,590 --> 01:41:14,250 lies to make me appear hateful... 1134 01:41:14,710 --> 01:41:19,450 I'm thinking of the bitterness, that I shall be ashamed... 1135 01:41:20,251 --> 01:41:21,751 that I shall weep... 1136 01:41:23,652 --> 01:41:25,152 I don't want that. 1137 01:41:25,570 --> 01:41:28,470 Let's not talk anymore of it... 1138 01:41:32,571 --> 01:41:33,771 But leave her... 1139 01:41:34,172 --> 01:41:35,472 Leave her alone! 1140 01:41:54,290 --> 01:41:57,030 - Do you love me? - Yes, you are so kind to me. 1141 01:41:57,231 --> 01:41:59,231 - No you don't. - I don't? 1142 01:41:59,432 --> 01:42:01,432 - No. - What do you want me to do? 1143 01:42:01,510 --> 01:42:05,250 - Guess! - I cannot imagine. 1144 01:42:11,651 --> 01:42:13,251 This is dirty. 1145 01:42:15,290 --> 01:42:16,610 This is too tight. 1146 01:42:17,530 --> 01:42:18,870 No progress. 1147 01:42:23,750 --> 01:42:26,050 - How old are you? - Nearly 20... 1148 01:42:26,051 --> 01:42:28,051 Tell me about yourself. 1149 01:42:29,710 --> 01:42:31,850 It would be long and sad. 1150 01:42:32,030 --> 01:42:35,790 Don't worry. I love weeping. You must like it too. 1151 01:42:35,791 --> 01:42:38,091 I'll wipe your tears - you mine. 1152 01:42:38,292 --> 01:42:41,292 Who knows? It may make us happy. 1153 01:42:41,793 --> 01:42:44,393 And you know where it might lead? 1154 01:42:45,094 --> 01:42:46,094 Tell me... 1155 01:43:13,009 --> 01:43:14,109 Suzanne... 1156 01:43:15,510 --> 01:43:17,910 did you really love your first Superior? 1157 01:43:18,130 --> 01:43:19,070 Yes, very much. 1158 01:43:19,370 --> 01:43:23,230 She didn't love you more than I do, but you loved her. 1159 01:43:24,331 --> 01:43:25,731 You say nothing. 1160 01:43:26,110 --> 01:43:29,150 I was unhappy. She comforted me... 1161 01:43:29,750 --> 01:43:33,390 What made you detest convent life? Tell me. 1162 01:43:33,550 --> 01:43:37,210 Sometime, somebody must have said you were pretty. 1163 01:43:37,390 --> 01:43:40,370 - Yes, they did. - You disliked that person? 1164 01:43:40,590 --> 01:43:42,610 - No. - Were you fond of him? 1165 01:43:43,290 --> 01:43:46,330 - No. - What? No secret passion? 1166 01:43:47,190 --> 01:43:49,870 Confide in me, I understand. 1167 01:43:50,110 --> 01:43:54,450 - Nothing to confide. - Then why detest our life? 1168 01:43:54,710 --> 01:43:58,850 It's the life itself. The utter lack of freedom. 1169 01:43:59,551 --> 01:44:02,651 I feel that I am destined for other things. 1170 01:44:03,010 --> 01:44:06,090 - What makes you think so? - I'm bored... 1171 01:44:06,350 --> 01:44:08,710 - Terribly bored. - Even here? 1172 01:44:08,910 --> 01:44:13,770 Yes, dear Mother, even here, in spite of your kindness. 1173 01:44:14,771 --> 01:44:15,471 But... 1174 01:44:17,070 --> 01:44:20,050 do you feel within yourself any movements... 1175 01:44:21,151 --> 01:44:22,351 desires? 1176 01:44:22,652 --> 01:44:24,452 - No. - I believe you. 1177 01:44:25,530 --> 01:44:28,870 - Yours seems to be a placid nature... - Fairly. 1178 01:44:28,871 --> 01:44:31,071 - I'd even say cold. - I don't know. 1179 01:44:32,570 --> 01:44:35,710 - You know society? - Very little... 1180 01:44:36,130 --> 01:44:37,670 What attracts you to it? 1181 01:44:38,371 --> 01:44:40,371 I don't know... but I feel it. 1182 01:44:41,550 --> 01:44:45,890 - Is it freedom you miss, then? - Yes, that, and other things. 1183 01:44:46,091 --> 01:44:47,491 What other things? 1184 01:44:48,392 --> 01:44:50,692 Speak to me frankly. 1185 01:44:51,830 --> 01:44:56,710 - You'd like to marry? - I'd certainly like it better than this. 1186 01:44:57,011 --> 01:44:58,811 - Why? - I don't know. 1187 01:44:59,190 --> 01:45:00,430 Tell me... 1188 01:45:04,430 --> 01:45:08,310 what do you feel in the presence of men? 1189 01:45:08,570 --> 01:45:11,810 If he's witty, I listen to him with pleasure. 1190 01:45:12,470 --> 01:45:14,610 If he's handsome, I notice him. 1191 01:45:15,170 --> 01:45:18,510 - And your heart? - No... not up till now. 1192 01:45:19,230 --> 01:45:22,570 And when your eyes meet those of a man? 1193 01:45:23,271 --> 01:45:25,571 - did you not feel... - Embarrassed sometimes. 1194 01:45:25,672 --> 01:45:27,772 I lowered my eyes. 1195 01:45:28,270 --> 01:45:29,750 But no passion? 1196 01:45:29,951 --> 01:45:30,751 No. 1197 01:45:31,710 --> 01:45:33,970 Your senses told you nothing? 1198 01:45:34,710 --> 01:45:37,190 Is there... a language of the senses? 1199 01:45:37,870 --> 01:45:41,390 - Didn't you know? - No, Mother, what good would it do me? 1200 01:45:41,870 --> 01:45:45,190 - You'd be less bored. - Or perhaps even more so. 1201 01:45:45,870 --> 01:45:48,010 Mother, I don't understand you... 1202 01:45:48,270 --> 01:45:51,470 - Then I'll be clearer... - No, I'd rather not know. 1203 01:45:51,871 --> 01:45:53,271 Why be afraid? 1204 01:45:55,570 --> 01:45:56,710 How innocent you are. 1205 01:45:56,811 --> 01:46:00,411 That's true. I'd rather die than be otherwise. 1206 01:46:05,910 --> 01:46:08,230 Mother, what's the matter? 1207 01:46:08,831 --> 01:46:11,031 Have I said something to hurt you? 1208 01:46:11,350 --> 01:46:12,630 I've very sorry... 1209 01:46:13,090 --> 01:46:16,030 I speak without thinking. Excuse me. 1210 01:46:20,290 --> 01:46:23,930 - Suzanne, do you sleep well? - Yes. 1211 01:46:24,831 --> 01:46:27,331 - You go to sleep quickly? - Nearly always. 1212 01:46:28,110 --> 01:46:30,890 When you don't what do you think of? 1213 01:46:31,290 --> 01:46:33,230 My past life and... 1214 01:46:33,870 --> 01:46:36,010 the sadness of my future. 1215 01:46:37,111 --> 01:46:39,911 Or I pray, or weep. 1216 01:46:40,510 --> 01:46:42,850 What do you do when you wake up early? 1217 01:46:43,530 --> 01:46:44,770 I get up. 1218 01:46:45,070 --> 01:46:47,270 - Straight away? - Straight away. 1219 01:46:49,110 --> 01:46:51,050 Don't you ever dream... 1220 01:46:53,530 --> 01:46:55,790 and lie back on your pillow? 1221 01:46:58,329 --> 01:46:59,029 No. 1222 01:46:59,430 --> 01:47:02,390 Nor enjoy the warmth of your bed? 1223 01:47:02,691 --> 01:47:03,491 No. 1224 01:47:04,410 --> 01:47:05,350 Never? 1225 01:47:06,230 --> 01:47:11,090 Have you ever looked at yourself? 1226 01:47:12,991 --> 01:47:15,591 - and been pleased to see... - No... 1227 01:47:16,110 --> 01:47:18,810 No and I don't know that I am so beautiful as you say. 1228 01:47:18,970 --> 01:47:23,310 In any case one is beautiful for others, not oneself. 1229 01:47:23,750 --> 01:47:24,790 Never...? 1230 01:47:26,250 --> 01:47:28,670 Father Limoine is asking for you. 1231 01:47:33,510 --> 01:47:35,590 I told you to stay in your room. 1232 01:47:38,750 --> 01:47:40,990 - Why are you here? - At Mother's orders 1233 01:47:41,630 --> 01:47:44,310 - Been with her long? - As long as she wanted. 1234 01:47:44,870 --> 01:47:47,470 - You promised. - I promised you nothing. 1235 01:47:48,530 --> 01:47:50,570 What have you been doing? 1236 01:47:57,310 --> 01:47:58,550 Have pity on me. 1237 01:49:18,390 --> 01:49:19,710 Don't worry, Suzanne. 1238 01:49:21,111 --> 01:49:22,011 It's only me. 1239 01:49:25,970 --> 01:49:27,510 What is it, Mother? 1240 01:49:28,570 --> 01:49:30,210 Why aren't you asleep? 1241 01:49:30,670 --> 01:49:33,570 I cannot sleep. I have bad dreams. 1242 01:49:34,171 --> 01:49:35,671 I see you surrounded by them... 1243 01:49:36,490 --> 01:49:39,350 with dishevelled hair and bare feet. 1244 01:49:40,350 --> 01:49:41,790 I tremble and awake. 1245 01:49:44,050 --> 01:49:47,490 I feared a disaster... and omen... 1246 01:49:49,390 --> 01:49:52,255 - I wanted to see you. - Dear Mother. 1247 01:49:52,290 --> 01:49:54,930 I am cold but I have nothing to fear. 1248 01:49:56,110 --> 01:49:57,910 I think I shall sleep. 1249 01:50:00,010 --> 01:50:01,250 Give me your hand. 1250 01:50:06,051 --> 01:50:07,651 How slow your pulse is. 1251 01:50:08,852 --> 01:50:10,452 Nothing disturbs it. 1252 01:50:10,910 --> 01:50:13,910 Dear Mother, your are still getting cold. 1253 01:50:14,711 --> 01:50:15,911 You're right. 1254 01:50:17,112 --> 01:50:18,512 I am going, my lovely one. 1255 01:50:21,710 --> 01:50:24,830 Mother, what is it? Why are you weeping? 1256 01:50:38,409 --> 01:50:39,409 It's Therese. 1257 01:50:40,510 --> 01:50:42,850 - Yes, I'm sure it is. - Do her no harm. 1258 01:50:45,051 --> 01:50:46,451 Goodnight, Suzanne. 1259 01:50:59,730 --> 01:51:01,470 Go back to bed. 1260 01:51:23,270 --> 01:51:27,050 Suzanne, go to your cell. You are not to confess today. 1261 01:51:27,351 --> 01:51:28,851 - Why? - I do not wish it. 1262 01:51:29,410 --> 01:51:31,650 - But... - People can think what they want. 1263 01:51:31,790 --> 01:51:34,530 Come to me. I will absolve you 1264 01:51:37,390 --> 01:51:39,630 Come along. I'll hear you now. 1265 01:51:41,750 --> 01:51:44,290 Go then, but promise me... 1266 01:51:45,191 --> 01:51:48,091 Oh say what you want. God will judge us... 1267 01:51:52,150 --> 01:51:55,590 Well, Father... it's the Superior. 1268 01:51:56,750 --> 01:52:00,050 She comes to my cell and makes me go to her... 1269 01:52:00,051 --> 01:52:01,251 I know... 1270 01:52:03,070 --> 01:52:05,370 God be praised you are safe till now. 1271 01:52:10,430 --> 01:52:12,350 I dare not be more precise... 1272 01:52:13,510 --> 01:52:15,310 and thus aid her designs... 1273 01:52:16,990 --> 01:52:19,350 but you must avoid her. 1274 01:52:20,310 --> 01:52:22,450 Never go to her room... 1275 01:52:23,270 --> 01:52:26,210 Close your door, specially at night. 1276 01:52:26,990 --> 01:52:30,730 If she comes in all the same, go outside... 1277 01:52:31,150 --> 01:52:35,710 call out, scream if necessary, and wake everybody... 1278 01:52:37,030 --> 01:52:42,130 Act as if you were confronted with Satan himself... If she pursues you... 1279 01:52:44,031 --> 01:52:47,031 Yes, my child, I said Satan... 1280 01:52:48,430 --> 01:52:51,750 whom you should see in the form of your Superior. 1281 01:52:53,190 --> 01:52:54,030 Say after me... 1282 01:52:55,794 --> 01:53:00,359 Satana, vade retro. Get thee behind me, Satan. 1283 01:53:08,909 --> 01:53:11,109 - In good health? - Yes, Father. 1284 01:53:11,910 --> 01:53:14,150 - Could you go without sleep? - Yes. 1285 01:53:15,670 --> 01:53:17,610 Then do not go to bed tonight. 1286 01:53:17,910 --> 01:53:21,590 After super, go to the alter and pray all night. 1287 01:53:21,930 --> 01:53:24,770 You don't know the danger you're in. 1288 01:53:25,150 --> 01:53:28,270 Thank God for protecting you. 1289 01:53:28,950 --> 01:53:33,090 Your only penitence will be to avoid your Superior. 1290 01:53:42,310 --> 01:53:45,590 I foresee the results of all this... 1291 01:53:45,691 --> 01:53:46,991 but I must do it... 1292 01:53:48,630 --> 01:53:52,770 God is our master. We have only one law. 1293 01:54:10,150 --> 01:54:12,230 Suzanne, what are you doing here? 1294 01:54:12,931 --> 01:54:14,031 You can see, Madam. 1295 01:54:14,532 --> 01:54:16,532 - You know the time? - Yes, Madam. 1296 01:54:16,990 --> 01:54:20,670 - Why aren't you in bed? - I'm preparing for Communion. 1297 01:54:21,351 --> 01:54:24,190 - You want to spend the night? - Yes, Madam. 1298 01:54:25,390 --> 01:54:28,510 - On whose authority? - That of the director. 1299 01:54:28,911 --> 01:54:31,111 The director cannot break the rules... 1300 01:54:31,710 --> 01:54:35,270 - I order you to bed - He ordered it as a penitence. 1301 01:54:35,510 --> 01:54:37,270 Replace it by something. 1302 01:54:37,790 --> 01:54:42,290 - I have no choice. - Come, my child, you will catch cold. 1303 01:54:42,891 --> 01:54:44,491 Go pray in your cell. 1304 01:54:45,692 --> 01:54:49,192 - Avoiding me? - Yes, Madam, I am. 1305 01:54:49,693 --> 01:54:53,093 - Behind me, Satan. - What is it? Stop... 1306 01:54:53,990 --> 01:54:57,890 I am not Satan. I am your Superior and friend. 1307 01:55:21,790 --> 01:55:25,870 Pardon, dear Mother. It's Father Lomoine who told me to. 1308 01:55:26,171 --> 01:55:27,971 What did he tell you? 1309 01:55:28,150 --> 01:55:30,890 He interrogated me. I had to reply... 1310 01:55:32,070 --> 01:55:34,070 Am I so horrible to you? 1311 01:55:35,670 --> 01:55:37,230 There was nothing to reply. 1312 01:55:37,590 --> 01:55:40,310 My friendship for you is normal. 1313 01:55:40,511 --> 01:55:43,511 - Father Lemoine doesn't think so. - How? 1314 01:55:43,790 --> 01:55:46,190 He sees black sin in it... 1315 01:55:46,590 --> 01:55:49,670 you already damned me on the point of perdition. 1316 01:55:51,770 --> 01:55:55,290 He's a dreamer. It's not his first silly prank. 1317 01:55:55,710 --> 01:55:58,950 I only have to like someone and he starts it. 1318 01:55:59,470 --> 01:56:02,310 He nearly drove poor Therese mad. 1319 01:56:02,990 --> 01:56:05,730 I've had enough of it. I must get rid of him. 1320 01:56:05,950 --> 01:56:09,870 Anyhow, he lives ten miles away. He's not on hand. 1321 01:56:10,670 --> 01:56:13,130 But let's talk in comfort. Come up? 1322 01:56:13,231 --> 01:56:14,631 No, dear Mother, no... 1323 01:56:15,030 --> 01:56:18,010 please allow me to spend the night here... 1324 01:56:18,710 --> 01:56:20,050 or I shan't dare... 1325 01:56:21,070 --> 01:56:23,790 But Mother, you will take Communion? 1326 01:56:24,591 --> 01:56:25,791 Of course. 1327 01:56:26,392 --> 01:56:29,192 - Father Lemoine said nothing? - No 1328 01:56:30,493 --> 01:56:32,193 How can that be? 1329 01:56:34,594 --> 01:56:37,094 You only confess to acknowledge your sins. 1330 01:56:37,770 --> 01:56:39,910 My friendship for you is not one. 1331 01:56:41,811 --> 01:56:44,311 - Come... let's go to my room. - No, Mother... 1332 01:56:45,710 --> 01:56:49,370 I swore before God I would not come again to you. 1333 01:56:50,950 --> 01:56:54,390 - Let's each make a little prayer, and then... - No, Mother. 1334 01:56:54,930 --> 01:56:57,550 Please allow me to pass the night here. 1335 01:57:00,030 --> 01:57:04,390 Very well, but on condition it's the last time. 1336 01:57:30,790 --> 01:57:32,530 Father Lemoine? 1337 01:57:32,990 --> 01:57:34,230 He has left. 1338 01:57:35,230 --> 01:57:36,730 I am the new director. 1339 01:57:37,531 --> 01:57:38,831 What happened? 1340 01:57:39,750 --> 01:57:43,150 - can I trust your discretion? - Most certainly. 1341 01:57:44,290 --> 01:57:46,930 Someone wrote of him to the Archbishop. 1342 01:57:47,031 --> 01:57:48,531 What did they say? 1343 01:57:48,630 --> 01:57:52,530 That he was too austere... lived to far away. 1344 01:57:52,810 --> 01:57:56,710 Is supected of Jansenism... sows dissension... 1345 01:57:56,990 --> 01:57:59,530 alienates the nuns from their Superior. 1346 01:57:59,610 --> 01:58:00,790 Who told you? 1347 01:58:01,391 --> 01:58:03,891 He did. I see him occasionally... 1348 01:58:05,070 --> 01:58:06,530 He told me of you. 1349 01:58:06,731 --> 01:58:08,031 What did he say? 1350 01:58:09,710 --> 01:58:11,470 That he was sorry for you... 1351 01:58:11,671 --> 01:58:14,071 had only seen you once or twice... 1352 01:58:14,350 --> 01:58:17,990 but was afraid for you... 1353 01:58:18,591 --> 01:58:19,591 Afraid of what? 1354 01:58:20,990 --> 01:58:22,270 Never mind... 1355 01:58:22,471 --> 01:58:24,371 I am your confessor. 1356 01:58:24,972 --> 01:58:27,072 I can also confess to you. 1357 01:58:28,230 --> 01:58:31,950 Perhaps my example will lend you courage. 1358 01:58:35,110 --> 01:58:38,930 Sister Suzanne, I too had no vocation. 1359 01:58:39,131 --> 01:58:40,331 I never had. 1360 01:58:41,030 --> 01:58:44,350 I too entered religion against my own wishes. 1361 01:58:45,090 --> 01:58:50,630 The persecution you have suffered... I too have suffered. 1362 01:58:51,350 --> 01:58:54,690 - Why do you tell me? - To help you bear your lot. 1363 01:58:55,630 --> 01:59:00,810 That is our only hope. You must resign yourself to it. 1364 01:59:01,230 --> 01:59:05,890 Good monks and nuns enjoy their mortifications. 1365 01:59:06,670 --> 01:59:10,710 They barter their present against their future joy... 1366 01:59:13,511 --> 01:59:14,511 and we... 1367 01:59:16,212 --> 01:59:17,312 Sister Suzanne... 1368 01:59:18,710 --> 01:59:20,930 we suffer the same tortures... 1369 01:59:21,470 --> 01:59:23,730 but for what recompense? 1370 01:59:24,390 --> 01:59:28,390 We damn our souls with penitence as laymen with sin. 1371 01:59:28,790 --> 01:59:31,830 We fast... and they feast... 1372 01:59:32,350 --> 01:59:35,330 and in the end the same Hell awaits us. 1373 01:59:36,350 --> 01:59:39,850 We are loaded with unbreakable chains... 1374 01:59:41,590 --> 01:59:44,430 let us try to bear them, Sister. 1375 01:59:49,131 --> 01:59:51,331 I shall come and see you again. 1376 02:00:26,610 --> 02:00:29,350 No, dear Mother, I promised not to. 1377 02:00:30,430 --> 02:00:31,870 It's better for us both... 1378 02:00:32,750 --> 02:00:36,630 I take too much room in your soul - room lost to God. 1379 02:00:37,030 --> 02:00:38,650 Do you reproach me? 1380 02:00:39,590 --> 02:00:42,650 - Won't you come in? - No, Mother, no. 1381 02:00:42,851 --> 02:00:44,451 You won't Suzanne? 1382 02:00:44,850 --> 02:00:46,730 You don't know what may happen. 1383 02:00:46,931 --> 02:00:48,231 No, you don't know. 1384 02:00:49,470 --> 02:00:51,190 You may kill me. 1385 02:01:04,391 --> 02:01:05,391 Suzanne... 1386 02:01:07,592 --> 02:01:08,892 Suzanne... 1387 02:01:50,210 --> 02:01:52,650 Sister Clement, pray for me. 1388 02:01:59,251 --> 02:02:01,651 Sister Therese, pray for me. 1389 02:02:06,689 --> 02:02:07,689 You must. 1390 02:02:08,090 --> 02:02:10,370 But... Father Lemoine... 1391 02:02:10,871 --> 02:02:13,071 - He was right. - But why? 1392 02:02:14,390 --> 02:02:17,170 My Sister, follow my advice.... 1393 02:02:17,670 --> 02:02:21,810 and that of Father Lemoine and never try to find out why. 1394 02:02:22,510 --> 02:02:26,050 If I only knew the danger I could better avoid it. 1395 02:02:26,470 --> 02:02:28,450 It could be the opposite. 1396 02:02:28,790 --> 02:02:30,570 I don't follow. 1397 02:02:32,430 --> 02:02:35,570 There are warning lights. Were' you better informed... 1398 02:02:35,790 --> 02:02:39,030 you Superior would be bolder. 1399 02:02:39,090 --> 02:02:40,530 I don't see. 1400 02:02:41,090 --> 02:02:42,330 All the better. 1401 02:02:42,930 --> 02:02:45,630 What is there dangerous about fondness? 1402 02:02:46,750 --> 02:02:48,970 What is the harm in loving? 1403 02:02:49,571 --> 02:02:52,271 - It's so sweet. - True enough... 1404 02:02:53,290 --> 02:02:55,130 And is it so common? 1405 02:02:56,370 --> 02:02:59,750 - Poor Superior... - She wasn't cut out for this life. 1406 02:03:00,150 --> 02:03:02,570 I comes of opposing nature... 1407 02:03:03,371 --> 02:03:05,071 a sort of madness. 1408 02:03:05,372 --> 02:03:07,772 - Is she mad? - Yes, she is... 1409 02:03:09,173 --> 02:03:11,173 and it will get worse. 1410 02:03:14,290 --> 02:03:19,890 All those who have no vocation, does the same fate await them? 1411 02:03:19,891 --> 02:03:21,591 No, not all. 1412 02:03:22,790 --> 02:03:24,550 Some die first... 1413 02:03:24,710 --> 02:03:26,250 or get used to the life... 1414 02:03:26,910 --> 02:03:30,090 - or go on hoping... - Hoping what? 1415 02:03:31,550 --> 02:03:33,210 Annulment of vows... 1416 02:03:33,611 --> 02:03:34,811 What else? 1417 02:03:39,230 --> 02:03:41,590 Finding the gate open one day... 1418 02:03:42,490 --> 02:03:44,270 or the house will be set on fire... 1419 02:03:45,190 --> 02:03:47,510 or the outer wall will fall down 1420 02:03:47,511 --> 02:03:49,111 That's very true... 1421 02:03:50,470 --> 02:03:52,210 I have imagined things like that... 1422 02:03:53,870 --> 02:03:57,010 - I still do... - When you no longer do... 1423 02:03:57,211 --> 02:03:59,011 you detest yourself... 1424 02:03:59,590 --> 02:04:02,350 ... and others. You cry to Heaven... 1425 02:04:02,750 --> 02:04:04,890 find a very high window... 1426 02:04:05,191 --> 02:04:06,391 a well... 1427 02:04:06,992 --> 02:04:08,192 a rope. 1428 02:04:08,510 --> 02:04:09,990 They are sometimes to be found. 1429 02:04:11,590 --> 02:04:13,370 Some go quite mad... 1430 02:04:14,510 --> 02:04:19,950 Those who keep on hoping till the grave are still the happiest... 1431 02:04:20,050 --> 02:04:23,890 and, no doubt, the unhappiest. 1432 02:04:29,270 --> 02:04:31,750 Father I am very sorry I listened to you. 1433 02:04:34,151 --> 02:04:35,251 Why? 1434 02:04:35,750 --> 02:04:37,090 Before, I didn't know myself. 1435 02:04:38,810 --> 02:04:40,550 No, I do. 1436 02:05:24,469 --> 02:05:25,569 Father... 1437 02:05:26,270 --> 02:05:28,010 I am a lost soul... 1438 02:05:57,629 --> 02:05:58,829 Sister Therese... 1439 02:05:59,630 --> 02:06:01,270 how is our Mother? 1440 02:06:01,630 --> 02:06:04,070 - She'll die of it. - What must I do? 1441 02:06:05,110 --> 02:06:06,750 You could do much. 1442 02:06:06,890 --> 02:06:09,170 Sister... I don't understand you. 1443 02:06:14,671 --> 02:06:15,671 It's you. 1444 02:06:15,950 --> 02:06:18,990 I cannot wait any longer. I must talk to you. 1445 02:06:19,950 --> 02:06:23,930 Father, I no longer wish to see you outside confession. 1446 02:06:24,410 --> 02:06:25,750 Listen, Suzanne... 1447 02:06:26,310 --> 02:06:28,450 Today I shall confess to you. 1448 02:06:29,651 --> 02:06:30,851 What is it? 1449 02:06:31,670 --> 02:06:32,750 Leave me in peace. 1450 02:06:34,750 --> 02:06:37,590 You made me lose what little courage I had. 1451 02:06:40,610 --> 02:06:41,570 Please go away. 1452 02:06:41,810 --> 02:06:45,850 How can I give you courage? I have none myself. 1453 02:06:47,010 --> 02:06:48,370 Listen. 1454 02:06:48,950 --> 02:06:51,530 Never have two human beings been so alike. 1455 02:06:52,031 --> 02:06:55,531 The story of your soul is the story of mine. 1456 02:06:55,832 --> 02:06:57,332 Why do you say that. 1457 02:06:58,250 --> 02:06:59,210 Go away. 1458 02:07:02,450 --> 02:07:03,415 Go away. 1459 02:07:03,450 --> 02:07:05,190 Let's be lost. 1460 02:07:06,450 --> 02:07:09,790 Suzanne, you too, are damning your soul. 1461 02:07:10,091 --> 02:07:11,091 Be quiet. 1462 02:07:11,210 --> 02:07:15,090 Suzanne, we must run away. All is prepared. 1463 02:07:15,170 --> 02:07:16,610 A coach is waiting for us. 1464 02:07:16,711 --> 02:07:19,311 You will be in safety. 1465 02:07:19,890 --> 02:07:21,670 You will forget your suffering. 1466 02:07:21,710 --> 02:07:24,210 and find the world. 1467 02:07:24,911 --> 02:07:26,011 I don't believe you. 1468 02:07:27,370 --> 02:07:30,310 - I cannot believe you. - Don't you want to be free? 1469 02:07:33,211 --> 02:07:36,511 Oh yes, I do... more than ever, but not like that... 1470 02:07:37,350 --> 02:07:38,710 It's the only way. 1471 02:07:40,011 --> 02:07:41,511 Give me two days... 1472 02:07:41,910 --> 02:07:47,530 I'll await you tomorrow near the well in the garden at midnight. 1473 02:09:55,610 --> 02:09:57,450 - Suzanne. - Yes, sister. 1474 02:09:57,790 --> 02:10:00,250 Say your Deo gratias in the barn. 1475 02:10:32,230 --> 02:10:35,070 Look at her pretending to be a nun... 1476 02:10:36,030 --> 02:10:40,570 - Have they caught that nun? - No, but they got the monk. 1477 02:10:40,790 --> 02:10:43,470 - What did they do? - Hand him over. 1478 02:10:43,490 --> 02:10:47,810 He'll spend his life in prison. The girl too, if they find her. 1479 02:10:48,250 --> 02:10:50,730 Serves her right for running away. 1480 02:10:51,631 --> 02:10:54,631 - What is it Marie? - Nothing, Madam. 1481 02:10:55,450 --> 02:10:58,590 Your not such a fool as to cry over her? 1482 02:10:58,791 --> 02:11:02,991 All she ever had to do was eat, sleep and pray. She was well off there. 1483 02:11:03,592 --> 02:11:06,192 If she had to work like us... 1484 02:11:06,590 --> 02:11:09,130 We only know our own troubles. 1485 02:11:09,331 --> 02:11:11,631 She's a hussy who'll be punished. 1486 02:11:30,570 --> 02:11:33,710 You can't stay there. Come along. 1487 02:11:34,010 --> 02:11:35,350 Follow me. 1488 02:11:43,430 --> 02:11:45,190 Did you take my message? 1489 02:11:45,310 --> 02:11:47,350 Mr. Manouri is dead... 1490 02:11:48,570 --> 02:11:50,710 Cheer up, there are others. 1491 02:11:51,350 --> 02:11:54,470 - More handsome and more loving. - We're not jealous. 1492 02:13:07,430 --> 02:13:08,950 God, pardon me. 1493 02:14:03,551 --> 02:14:06,544 As is the madness of a man who... 1494 02:14:06,641 --> 02:14:10,152 knowing nothing of navigation puts out to sea without pilot... 1495 02:14:10,253 --> 02:14:13,753 thus is the madness of a creature who takes... 1496 02:14:13,854 --> 02:14:17,354 religious vows without God's will to guide her. 1497 02:14:17,455 --> 02:14:19,155 JACQUES-BENIGNE BOSSUET 107517