Free adaptation of an controversial novel of Diderot
that takes the same title, this are fruit of the imagination.
do not try to be an exact picture of the religious institutions,
not even of the XVlll century.
the spectators will see it from that double perspective
historical and novelesca one without generalizing of hurried form,
unjust and indefensible one.
Denis Diderot is 47 years old.
In few weeks, the director of the Encyclopedia
write "the Nun".
In century XVIII, the life in the convents do not conserve more
that the external aspects of an authentic religious life.
Many bourgeois and aristocrats pay to commit their daughters
in convents until they marry.
Are places of retirement for single widows and women.
nowadays buy an abbey like a writing desk.
To this are called "a benefit to him".
the superioras usually are named according to their degree of nobility.
very young, sometimes smaller Abbesses of twenty years,
get to direct great convents.
Many of them are the habitual scene of celebrations and spectacles.
the rules are not fulfilled and lose sense
to the contact with that worldly life.
In its Diderot novel are inspired by real personages.
Louise Adelaide d'Orleans, daughter of Regente Philippe
which she was Abbess of Chelles in 1719, served to him as model
when it imagined to the superiora of Saint Eutrope.
Suzanne Simonin, "the Nun" remembers Marguerite Delamarre
whose father, to increase its fortune,
committed in a convent to the three years.
This appealed against its votes forced in 1752,
lost the lawsuit and remained enclaustrada until its death
In the Abbey of Longchamps that appears in the work of Diderot.
the "Nun" could be a commentary
of those words of Bossuet:
"Not between recklessly in a so hard profession
and if she does not feel a tremendous disgust by the world,
leave, sister, of that confinement ".
Since to establish a daughter money costs,
are chosen to give it to the religion. It does not have vocation some.
the money and the necessity Are sufficient reasons.
conduct to victima to the Temple with the hands and the tied feet.
appear the Priest and are object of a sacrifice
that far from glorifying and pleasing God, is to him execrable
and cause its revenge.
Louis Bourdaloue.
Sermon on having of the parents with respect to the vocation of its children
THE NUN
Marie-Suzanne Simonin, promises to say the truth?
I promise It.
Are in favor here of its own will?
If.
Marie-Suzanne Simonin,
promise to God abstention, poverty and obedience?
No, gentleman.
Marie-Suzanne Simonin,
promise to God abstention, poverty and obedience?
No, gentleman.
Serenese and escucheme.
have asked to Me if it promised to God abstention, poverty and obedience.
I have heard to Him and I answer to him that no.
Gentlemen, and you, parents mine,
them volume like witnesses. Here I am forced!
I have pretended until now fulfilling the will of my parents
to protest in public against that coaction!
iNo I have vocation some! I do not want to obey to my parents!
Dear parents... iHagan of me what they want!
But, nun, no! iNo I want to be it!
I will not be it!
No! No!
No!
Sigo being its daughter.
Levantate, Suzanne.
Levantate
you are crying.
You are ungrateful.
Sabes that there are lost much money.
To your sisters, do not go to them well. We went to ruin to marry them.
Your father is lawyer and nonbanker.
we cannot reunirte a good dowry.
Your enter the convent supposed more expenses.
people knew that you were going to profess.
To negarte you have caused a scandal. 84 00:06:48,579 --> 00:06:50,286 What?
you do not say anything?
What are going to do with me?
Sigame.
Father, has been time being our confesor.
Tiene to speak with her.
I will not force it to be religious.
Nobody can more convince it.
Are God that it has to call it. He would be dangerous to insert to me.
have found the one of the Delamarre case?
I am looking for It.
Lleva three months locked up in its room.
Sabe that it will not obtain anything.
Hay to solve it already.
Could see my mother?
Could speak with my father?
Could write to them?
Sabe that no.
Que.dia.es.hoy?
second Monday of the month.
We are sincere.
I have gone to ruin by this one.
What could do now by the other
That thinks it.
What I will do with that girl?
cannot work.
In the world would not be free. Less still than in a convent.
Conoce the destiny the unmarried or poor girls.
the hospicio. - Or the jail, the asylum.
I request to him that it sees it.
Hablare' with her.
Acercate.
Habla without fear.
Acercate.
I do not have anything to say to him.
Entre' takes in the order.
Sabre' comprenderte.
My mother hates to me.
Not it acknowledgments and compadecela. She is a good Christian.
He is very to his grief that... - Who forces it?
It give birth to me.
- I am different from my sisters? - Yes.
How?
Escucha, tomatelo with patience. Sientate.
Oremos.
Serenate
No.
No, father.
No longer I can say.
- I have tried It... - Daughter mine...
I am more handsome than my sisters.
That bothered my parents.
When it was fifteen years old,
a young person courted my sister.
Note' that it liked I. I said it to my mother.
To the four days committed to me in a convent.
Pase' there two years, until the moment for professing.
Dicen that my parents are honest people.
are wanted to them and respected.
Why with me...
Daughter mine, I have decirte something.
Although I often advised it,
are a secret that your mother never wanted revelarte.
Already you know how she is she.
Pensaba convencerte without confesartelo. It was mistaken.
have ordered decirte to Me that Mr. Simonin is not your father.
Me it imagined it.
Already you see that tratarte like a cannot its other daughters.
- it cannot say to him to your father... - Who is my father?
me it has not said it.
Your sisters have been the favored ones.
did not leave anything you of which it corresponded to you.
very little If you lose your parents, you will have left.
Can that you regret after to have avoided the convent.
I do not request anything.
I do not have decirte nothing else.
Piensatelo
and make a decision.
Father...
I have another question.
- my sisters Know... - No.
and left without anything their sister?
Since if thinks that I am it...
you do not have them.
Tienen children. It will be a good pretext for dejarte in the misery.
Thus are not lived.
Hazme case. Reconciliate with your parents.
Obedece to your mother. Religious Hazte.
will reunite a small dowry to You.
Your life will be, if nonhappy, at least bearable.
You are sensible and good.
Piensatelo well.
Her mother grants the interview to him.
Levantate.
Your father is not. Speech.
you have seen Serafin Father.
Sabes finally who you are and what you can hope of me.
Then, Suzanne, what decision you have taken?
Mother, I know that I do not have anything,
which I cannot inhale to... I know it.
But do not forget that you are my mother.
Quisiera to forget it.
Daughter mine,
to me you do not continue making bitter the life. 188 00:14:38,060 --> the 00:14:40,400 passion has disappeared
and have returned the reason.
and the one that gave the life me?
Murio'. 192 00:14:50,900 -- 00:14:52,900 Without remembering you.