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...must be added that this Pope is really a nun called Joan. The time is the Middle Ages. The Saxons, as is their wont, have been sacking the countryside, raping and pillaging and generally making a nuisance of themselves. Under such circumstances, it is hardly safe for a young nun to travel openly. When Joan (Liv Ullmann) must flee her nunnery, loyal Father Adrian (Maximilian Schell) chops her long honey-colored hair into a kind of modified Sassoon, outfits her in a monk's habit and runs with her from the marauding hordes...
Pierce, 31, who used to be a nun in the order of the Sisters of Mercy. The women must still complete a 14-week course and establish that they can meet the masculine standards - including a two-mile run in 17 minutes or less, jujitsu and shooting with a .38-cal. revolver...
Thuy Kieu, however, asks that she be allowed to become a nun. Her body has been "battered by many storms," and she does not believe that she is worthy to be a wife...
...mainspring of the play's action is provided by the return of Irene. Shadowed by an ever-vigilant nun who is part fury, part mad-house attendant, Irene drifts back into Rubek's life with ghostly grace. Now art and life play out their conflict in the best fin de siecle fashion: while Rubek and Irene seek to regain both life and the past in a belated union, Maja flees to the arms of Rubek's counterbalance--the blustering bear hunter Squire Ulfhej...
...villain has "beady, ferret eyes." His heroine wears "two wisps of bra which did little to contain the overflow of her provocative breasts." Scenes of perfervid theological discussion alternate plonkingly with episodes like one in which the p.r. man performs some ungodly acts with an ex-nun. Then Wallace stops pandering and starts attending to the plot. From there on the book takes...