It's got to be something of an inconvenience for a young woman who's devoted her life to serve Him and she finds out that He's places a nasty little trick on her. That's the postulate that AGNES OF GOD, a thriller with a lot of religion and atheism thrown in for good tension, tries to present and pass off without a hitch. The main problem is, that could have been acceptable, had it not introduced a human element -- the possibility of a crime -- into the mix. The crime in question? A young nun's baby, dead under mysterious circumstances, the ensuing investigation which points at clues which seem to point at darker elements, the appearance of the non-believing psychiatrist, played by Jane Fonda who is determined to get to the root of the matter despite the protests of the Mother Superior, played by Anne Bancroft as a woman who abandoned her previous life of worldly pleasures for one of introspection. AGNES OF GOD benefits by these two actresses who play against and with each other grandly, but Meg Tilly's performance is somehow uneven and borders on thankless even when she is the nun caught in the middle of this crux (pun intended). I can't say I was satisfied with the way it wrapped up its mystical dilemma, but there it is, existing, daring you to watch it and make up your own conclusions as to what is valid under the aegis of the Maker.
Review of Agnes of God
