L’affaire de la Religieuse de Rivette (1965-1967)

Suzanne Simonin, la religieuse de Diderot, a film byJacques Rivette, a director connected with LaNouvelle Vague and Les cahiers du cinéma, was censored in 1966 under de Gaulle's presidency. What role did the CatholicChurch play in this decision? Among Christians, there were two different attitu...

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Main Author: Sabine Rousseau
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Language:fra
Published: Centre interdisciplinaire d’Études du Religieux (CIER) 2012-06-01
Series:Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cerri/1101
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description Suzanne Simonin, la religieuse de Diderot, a film byJacques Rivette, a director connected with LaNouvelle Vague and Les cahiers du cinéma, was censored in 1966 under de Gaulle's presidency. What role did the CatholicChurch play in this decision? Among Christians, there were two different attitudes. Father Jean Pihan and Pierre Goursat from the Office catholique du cinéma, de la radio et de la télévision, rallied the nuns from the Union des supérieures majeures against the film. According to them, morality had to be saved. On the contrary, other Christians, such as Marc Oraison and Françoise Vandermeersch, thought that censorship was useless and that films must be appreciated for their aesthetic qualities.
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L’affaire de la Religieuse de Rivette (1965-1967)
Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires
nouvelle vague
Censorship
Catholic Morality
Sixties
De Gaulle
Nuns
title L’affaire de la Religieuse de Rivette (1965-1967)
title_full L’affaire de la Religieuse de Rivette (1965-1967)
title_fullStr L’affaire de la Religieuse de Rivette (1965-1967)
title_full_unstemmed L’affaire de la Religieuse de Rivette (1965-1967)
title_short L’affaire de la Religieuse de Rivette (1965-1967)
title_sort l affaire de la religieuse de rivette 1965 1967
topic nouvelle vague
Censorship
Catholic Morality
Sixties
De Gaulle
Nuns
url https://journals.openedition.org/cerri/1101
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