The Innocents

Drama | 2016 | PG-13. 1hr 59min
CAST: Lou de Laage, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza DIRECTOR: Anne Fontaine

In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent.

A Note to our viewers: this film addresses themes of rape and sexual assault.

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Hope and horror are commingled to quietly moving effect in [The Innocents], a restrained but cumulatively powerful French-Polish drama about the various crises of faith that emerge when a house of God is ravaged by war.

Justin Chang, Variety

If there's a war movie we haven't seen enough of yet, it's one told from the female perspective, one that further obscures who the good guys and bad guys really are.

April Wolfe, Village Voice