Filmmakers are obsessed with this niche genre

Cinema has a long-standing fascination with women of the cloth. Chloe Penman explores the rich history of nuns on screen, from #BlackNarcissus to #Benedetta.
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[@FeinDining]

Your film essays are always second to nun 👏

[@framemygaze]

Great supercut! And interesting analysis of some of the male gaze nun films. Another genre you didn’t say is the lesbian nun genre! There are some great gay nuns

[@milenel]

I love your analysis but when you mentioned films about singing nuns never won an Oscar I had to disagree because The Sound of Music won 5 Oscars and two of the acting nominations were for the nun/almost-nun performances, but i believe it might be the only exception anyway

[@Agills-Photography]

I literally just watched Black Narcissus like 2 days ago

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Are all films featuring nuns considered horror films? If not, they should be...nun more scary.

[@VixxKong2]

Your essays are so relaxing to watch, no matter the subject

[@antoinepetrov]

Meryl Streep is Jack of all trades, master of nun

[@betsyrocks]

Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus was amazing.

[@mclare71]

You left out the most cultish nun of all: Vanessa Redgrave in Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS.

[@chloepenman5300]

the devils is in there!