Agnes Of God

Plausible enough that this is Norman Jewison directing, on Quebec locations, with camera by Sven Nykvist and design by Ken Adam, opening the 1985 adaptation of the widely-praised play (and screenplay) by John Pielmeier, only Anne Bancroft among the three stars seen here, in Agnes Of God, 1985, with Jane Fonda and Meg Tilly.

As Montreal court-appointed psychiatrist Livingston on her first visit to the convent where a baby born to a nun died, Jane Fonda is struck by the candor of Mother Superior Miriam Ruth (Anne Bancroft), whose opinions appear to present a problem, Norman Jewison directing from the play and screenplay by John Pielmeier, in Agnes Of God, 1985.

Court-appointed Psychiatrist Livingston (Jane Fonda) is shown the room where the title character nun (Meg Tilly) gave birth to a baby that died, her mother superior (Anne Bancroft) making clear that she won’t face facts, leading to a deft flashback by director Norman Jewison, in Agnes Of God, 1985.

Court-appointed psychiatrist Livingston (Jane Fonda) begins her first interview with the title character (Meg Tilly), a Quebec nun who gave birth to a baby, either stillborn or killed, and who, we learn, has no conventional explanation, in Agnes Of God, 1985, directed by Norman Jewison, also starring Anne Bancroft.

Jane Fonda’s first scene, as Montreal psychiatrist Martha Livingston, passes by the title character (Meg Tilly), charged with killing her baby, and her Mother Superior (Anne Bancroft), then consults with colleagues (Francoise Faucher as Eve) about the case, early in Norman Jewison’s Agnes Of God, 1985, from the play by John Pielmeier.