Cinema: The Innocents

An emotionally layered, tender and insightful drama.

Riverbank Arts CentreNewbridge

Event Details

  • Mon 20 Feb  2017
  • 8.00pm

  • Cost: 6.00

  • Venue Details
    Riverbank Arts Centre

    Main St.
    Newbridge



Set at the end of the WW2 in Poland, this sensitive and emotionally resonant drama is centered on Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, who comes to the aid of a group of nuns living in the aftermath of the war. 

Based on real events, Fontaine explores their fraught situation with great humanity and sensitivity. Mathilde protects the nuns not only from further attacks but also from the convents hierarchy.

The complexities of trauma and shame are deftly and sensitively handled through the prism of faith, humanism, compassion and acceptance.


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