• Director: Suzane Schiffman
  • Release Year: 1987
  • Production Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Run Time: 97 minutes

Le moine et la sorcière (Sorceress)

Description

Intent on sniffing out heresy amongst the faithful, an inquisitor arrives at a poor peasant village where the local priest is more worried about compassion and comfort for the peasants than their comprehension of dogma. The inquisitor realizes he's found his heretic when he discovers that the single beautiful woman in the village lives at the edge of the woods, concocting herbal cures and leading the villagers in the worship of a local saint—who just happens to be a dog.

Themes

Christianity, Patriarchy, Catholicism, Monasticism, Women's history, Spirituality, Paganism, Oppression, Class conflicts, Alternative medicine