The capacity of French cinema ... “The Innocents” is a World War II story from a woman’s perspective. It’s not an in-your-face woman’s movie, any more than “Saving Private Ryan ...

The French drama THE INNOCENTS takes place shortly after World War II in Poland ... Cinematographer Caroline Champetier gives the film an austere beauty, contrasting the nuns’ black-and-white habits ...

Set in the aftermath of World War II, the quietly powerful drama “The Innocents ... the movie opens in December 1945, as a Benedictine nun desperately seeks help from a French Red Cross ...

These sounds are pure and transporting, and the film returns ... “The Innocents.” Anne Fontaine’s post-World War II drama involving a Polish convent and a French female doctor proves yet ...

It’s more like a complex social allegory, delivered in a film of masterful restraint and great compassion. In the French context, “The Innocents” is also a film about a national hero ...

Anne Fontaine’s “The Innocents” is an admirable attempt ... Based on a true story, this film follows French Red Cross medic Mathilde Beaulieu (Lou de Laâge), as she becomes involved with ...

Before the Polish premiere of The Innocents, the St. Benedict Order raised complaints that the French-Polish film distorts history, showing events that certainly did not occur in any Polish ...

Much of Anne Fontaine’s blistering film “The Innocents” is set within the ... of “Breathe”), is a young doctor caring for French soldiers in a Red Cross hospital. One day, a young ...

watching the events of French filmmaker Anne Fontaine’s The Innocents unfold, and it’s Mathilde’s integrity, warmth and conviction that make this bleak movie a little less difficult to watch.

She returns with a young French ... one of the film’s most quotable lines, Maria describes faith as “24 hours of doubt and one minute of hope.” It is fair to say that The Innocents is ...

But the painful truth emerges slowly as French doctor Mathilde (Lou ... making “The Innocents” very much a movie about the weakening grip of religious institutions in turbulent times and ...