LES ANGES DU PÉCHÉ

David Thomson (Time Out Film Guide) called LES ANGES DU PÉCHÉ "one of the most astonishing film debuts ever," and François Truffaut deemed it the best French film of the Occupation period. The film is set in a convent that specializes in rehabilitating female convicts; the story centers on the relationship between an idealistic novice (Faure) and an opportunistic murderess (Holt). Bresson's style, though remarkably assured, is not quite yet "Bressonian," but his thematic concerns are already present in force, as he explores the paradoxical relations between sin and salvation, the secular and the religious, faith and imprisonment. In French with English subtitles. 35mm. (MR)