Review of Les novices

Les novices (1970)
2/10
When they're bad, French movies are sooooooo bad
28 June 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Bardot's a nun (Agnes); she goes to the beach w/ the other nuns and all disrobe - under the habit there's a clingy black slip; under that is a black 1-pc bathing suit.

Agnes runs off; steals clothes, a purse, a mo-ped; has an accident; meets a hooker (Mona) in the police station.

These two pair up and Agnes lives with the Mona. Men come and go - you yearn for the quiet of Mel Brooks slapstick. Mona tries to teach Agnes how to work the streets.

Mona gets a fake nurse's license and a fake driver's license for Agnes. Agnes drives Mona around to find tricks. Business is good. They buy a new ambulance and some shorter skirts.

They're outed; there's a police chase; they escape; they take a pregnant woman who gives birth to a 6-month old baby; they steal a chicken; push the ambulance over a cliff, swim to the convent in bikinis, and Mona becomes a nun but quietly winks at the priest.

There's an annoying dog through most of the movie - by now Bardot had become an animal activist - all later Bardot movies have an animals so that she can show her love.

The only reason to see it is to imagine the fundamentalist Christians whining about its blasphemy.
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