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Mazuy's lavishly staged drama takes its title from a boarding school founded in the seventeenth century by Louis the XIV's mistress to educate daughters of the nobility made destitute by wars.
After a life of debasement and intrigue, however, Madame de Maintenon (Huppert) begins to fear the flames of hell. Enlisting the advice of a cleric, she renounces her former attachment to liberal values and implements a rather more repressive curriculum to set her young charges on the path of righteousness.
"A compelling central performance from Huppert"
Variety
