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Jacques Rivette’s The Nun to be Re-Released in 4k Restoration

Katie Smith-Wong by Katie Smith-Wong
July 6, 2018
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The Nun (La Religuese) by Jacque Rivette
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Jacques Rivette’s controversial French New Wave film The Nun (Original title: La religieuse) will return to UK cinemas for the first time since its original release on 27 July and will then make its UK Premiere on DVD/Blu-ray/EST on 17 September 2018.

Banned for two years upon release for its controversial subject matter, with an exception granted for it to premiere at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival to great acclaim, Jacques Rivette’s The Nun is a gem of the French New Wave, encapsulating the turbulent years of the Gaullist government and political instability of 1960s France. Adapted from the 18th century novel by Denis Diderot, the author of The Lumieres, the film stars Anna Karina (Alphaville, Pierrot le fou) as Suzanne Simonin, a young woman removed from her family home to become a nun against her will.

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In the 18th century, Suzanne Simonin (Anna Karina) is locked in a convent against her will. She finds for a while some comfort with the Mother Superior, but then she dies and is replaced by a sadistic woman than cannot stop blaming and punishing Suzanne. The young lady gets the right to move to another convent, however, she remains determined to recover her freedom.

Jacques Rivette’s adaptation is faithful to the novel and takes up the three central acts that describe the distinct aspects of the relationship between Suzanne Simonin and her Mothers Superiors: first, compassion and kindness, then sadism and intolerance, and finally: attraction and sexuality. Jacques Rivette’s The Nun appears as a manifesto in line with the French New Wave, transforming this 18th century chronicle into a contemporary questioning of freedom. 

Jacques Rivette (1928 – 2016) was a French film director and film critic, known for his contributions to the French New Wave and the influential magazine (dubbed the ‘instrument of combat’ of the New Wave) Cahiers du Cinéma, of which he was editor throughout the first half of the 1960s. Extremely prolific throughout his career, Rivette made 29 films, best known among them L’amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971) and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).

The restoration of The Nun was made in 4K from the original film negative. The 4K resolution reproduces all the information and the details from the 35mm film and re-establishes on big screen the beauty of Jacques Rivette’s images and the delicacy of Alain Levent’s photography. The sound has also been restored from the negative sound (the only compliant element).

This restoration was carried out by the laboratory L’immagine Ritrovata under the supervision of STUDIOCANAL and Mrs. Véronique Manniez-Rivette, and lasted five months, benefiting from the support of the French National Center For Cinema And Animated Image, The French Cinematheque and the Franco-american Cultural Fund-DGA-MPA-SACEM-WGAW.

The new 4K restoration of The Nun will be released in UK cinemas on 27 July and will be available to own for the first time in the UK on DVD, Blu-ray and EST on 17 September 2018.

Tags: 4K restorationAnna KarinaDenis DiderotJacques RivetteLa religieuseThe Nun
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