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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: September 27, 1985 |
Starring:
Anne Bancroft, Anne Pitoniak, Françoise Faucher, Gabriel Arcand, Gratien Gélinas, Guy Hoffmann, Jacques Tourangeau, Jane Fonda, Meg Tilly, Winston Rekert
Summary:
When a naive novice nun (Meg Tilly) is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist (Jane Fonda) investigates her case.
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The movie contains Jane Fonda's first big-screen appearance since On Golden Pond (1981); if she doesn't quite find a character in Martha, she is nonetheless riveting. Anne Bancroft, too, is impressive. Finally, though, it is Meg Tilly who makes the movie live. Her performance, which works on both realistic and symbolic levels, allows you to believe in the story.
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Agnes of God may not seem half so profound on the screen as it did on stage, but if that is the case, it is so because Jewison's direction illuminates rather than conceals the story's essence. And this Agnes is not just a filmed play; it's a real movie, and a fine piece of work. [27 Sept 1985, p.D1]
Fonda’s relentless interrogating, mannered chain-smoking and enforced two dimensionality cause her to become tiresome very early on. She remains a brittle cliche of a modern professional woman. Bancroft gives a generally highly engaging performance as a religious woman too knowledgeable to be one-upped by even the craftiest layman.
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