The devotional life of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, a.k.a. "The Little Flower of Jesus," rendered in delicate, petal-like scenes, and arty salon photography, with textured backdrops, a frosty white light, and blackouts seemingly controlled by rheostat. Rigorously ascetic, but sneakingly prettified, even cutesified, in its own way, too, and a little indistinct in tone. Catherine Mouchet, with a beauty rather more Medieval than 19th-century, is too much a pair of raised eyebrows and pudgy cheeks --but how her eyes do shine! Directed by Alain Cavalier. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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