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The Nun's Story

  • Dir: Fred Zinnemann

  • USA, 1959, English, 151mins, DCP

  • Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft

Quietly beautiful and soaringly sensitive, this off-beat drama gives a vivid portrait of how a young woman gains but also loses her soul. Determined to become a nursing nun to serve the people in the Congo, a surgeon’s daughter puts herself through a personal tug-of-war between a wish to respect the austere discipline of the nunnery and a spirit to rebel. Stripped of her cutesy demeanor, Hepburn inhabits her character with anguish, disappointment and exhaustion. In a remarkable synthesis of idea, pictorial imagery and stunning colour, Zinnemann crafts a parabola of spiritual afflatus and deflation, throwing into the air his questioning of faith, conscience and obedience.

Restored by Warner Bros. in collaboration with The Film Foundation.

Academy Awards: 8 nominations including Best Picture

San Sebastian International Film Festival Golden Seashell for Best Film and Best Actress Zulueta Prize

22/11 (Sat): Film talk with Sam Ho

Screening:

In-theatre Screening

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.