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And that's when Dr. Livingston (Jane Fonda) enters the scene, armed with Dr. Freud and a court warrant, determined to find out if Agnes has all her marbles before the trial begins. Her efforts are slowed by the government, the Church, and, for her own reasons, the indomitable Mother...
ALL PARTIES DRAG in their psychological garbage for viewer perusal, which consists mostly of good old-fashioned Catholic guilt. Livingston's sister died in a convent, so she would like to hate Catholicism, except her senile mother makes her feel guilty about being ungodly, and professional ethics call for objectivity...
All this profoundity leads to a little bit of overacting on everyone's part. Fonda expressing her love for Agnes and her wish to help has all the old cornyness of the Three Faces of Eve psychodrama. But the actresses are all of high caliber, so the sound and fury...
A more serious problem with this film is its lack of real dynamism. "Heaven," according to the Talking Heads, "is a place where nothing ever happens;" so Agnes of God is quite close to paradise. Though the film is structured like a psychological detective story, nothing is really detected about...
The gravest fault of all with this film is its insistence on answering all questions ambiguously. But real contradictions and questions appear in the movie that should upset Livingston's new found spiritual agnosticism. Which of the conception stories do we believe, and why does another nun appear to have...