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\u201cTHE GUILTY CAN FORGIVE\u2013THE INNOCENT TAKE REVENGE!\u201d<\/span> Before the first movie in the National Gallery of Art\u2019s Robert Bresson series<\/a> started, we were warned that it was uncharacteristically melodramatic. Maybe that\u2019s why I liked it so much! I find Bresson\u2019s \u201cmature\u201d style emotionally battened-down to the point of catatonia, and it\u2019s really hard for me to get on board with his work, whereas in the early movie Les Anges du P\u00e9ch\u00e9<\/span> (The Angels of Sin\u2013!!!) I was totally engaged and found the characters and their dilemmas really compelling.<\/p>\n

The movie takes place in a convent of nuns whose special charism is ministry to women in prison. Many of the nuns are ex-cons themselves. There\u2019s fierce Mother St. John, a hard-bitten but deeply humble lady who reserves her tenderness for her cat; well-meaning Anne-Marie, a daughter of privilege with all the self-involved stupidity privilege can breed, but also with a sort of springtime sunniness of nature which evokes empathy even as you want to shake her; Therese, a convict to whom Anne-Marie feels a special and intense pull; and the Mother Superior, working to exercise leadership in a hothouse world of gossip and point-scoring disguised as spiritual direction.<\/p>\n

Therese, wrongfully convicted of a crime committed by her lover, speaks the line I used as the post title (which is a better way of describing my problem with Silent Hill<\/span><\/a>, as well!), and the treatment of forgiveness in the movie is rich and insightful. The nuns\u2019 humility, pride, complicity, sincerity all come through clearly. The movie has a few noir touches or sequences but is mostly straightforward drama. If you like Dostoevsky and also nuns, you should give this a spin.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"