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Inquiring Nuns is a american film of genre Documentary released in USA on 1 january 1968 with Stepin Fetchit

Inquiring Nuns (1968)

Inquiring Nuns
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Released in USA 1 january 1968
Length 1h6
OriginUSA
Rating72% 3.614743.614743.614743.614743.61474

Inquiring Nuns is 1968 Kartemquin Films production directed by Gordon Quinn and Gerald Temaner. In the film, two young nuns visit a variety of locales in the city of Chicago, asking people the question, "Are you happy?" They meet a variety of individuals ranging from hippie musicians to intellectuals, whose responses are everything from the mundane to the spiritual. The film was directly influenced by Jean Rouch's Chronicle of a Summer.

An Official Selection of the 1969 Chicago International Film Festival, Inquiring Nuns features music by the then relatively unknown composer, Philip Glass (Truman Show, Fog of War). Recently re-released on DVD, Entertainment Weekly graded Inquiring Nuns an 'A' and applauded the film's "reaffirmation of the virtue of conventional wisdom".

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Stepin Fetchit

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