The Innocents (2016)
Anne Fontaine's film is set in 1945 in Poland starring Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza follows a young doctor who is sent to help the survivors of the German camps finds out several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy when she visits to a nearby convent.
11 October 1985, Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland
26 October 1984, Moscow, Russia
14 January 1990, Georgia
5 March 1933, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
11 September 1984, Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
22 December 1988, Poland
August 10, 1940 in Podrosla, Bialostockie, Poland [now Podrosla, Belarus]
5 February 1971, Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland
25 August 1968, Grójec, Mazowieckie, Poland
18 August 1973, Poland
16 April 1951, Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland
10 March 1987, Piastów, Mazowieckie, Poland
2 April 1964, Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
14 March 1984, Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland
24 June 1982, Krynica-Zdrój, Malopolskie, Poland
April 28, 2017
It builds to something quite remarkable.April 28, 2017
With gorgeous cinematography by Caroline Champetier and memorably unsentimental performances... Fontaine's film is neither anti-religion nor pro-science but, instead, about compassion, mercy and forgivenes.March 02, 2017
An utterly graceful film about an almost graceless time.May 02, 2017
The Innocents may be understandably solemn in mood and sober in approach, but it's illuminating in probing the minutiae of resilience amidst the unexpected and the horrific.July 28, 2016
Shot in artful, quiet light (many of the frames look like elegant paintings), "The Innocents" is beautifully performed by its nearly all-female cast; each nun, even those unnamed, is given her own personality and story.May 02, 2017
Shot through with winter tones and a solemn contemplation that evokes religious art, The Innocents evokes the struggle for spiritual survival.July 15, 2016
The ghastliness of this situation has its black comic aspects, but director Anne Fontaine keeps everything on an even keel -- too even.August 04, 2016
Director and co-writer Anne Fontaine makes every shot and every exchange count in her tender but penetrating exploration of sisterhood in a brutal world.April 28, 2017
[Fontaine] retains her knack for keeping the viewer guessing about what she might be up toJuly 29, 2016
Fontaine ("Gemma Bovary," "Coco Before Chanel") has just the right touch. There is no melodrama here, simply women of faith living day to day.July 15, 2016
The Innocents is a powerful, brave film that will stay with you for days.November 07, 2016
An emotionally involving rather than harrowing film, with scenes as beautiful as oil paintings.