(Found) A film about nuns and politics query

Danny McG

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Maybe thirty years ago, or a bit longer, I faintly remember watching a film about a convent.
This has only crept up in my memory due to Richard Nixon appearing in the "Whose face is this" forum!

I don't recall any of the cast and I've only vague memories of the plot.
Here goes....
There is a lot of political infighting in this convent, an inner circle are jockeying for power and the Mother Superior role. I think the existing one was either Ill or very old.

There was one nun and a small entourage who went around visiting other orders of nuns and she was playing like a Henry Kissinger role but also building up her influence.

Back at the convent another of the circle was doing a Tricky Dicky, she had hidden surveillance devices planted around, hoping for indiscretions. I think she also had an enforcement squad to plant fake evidence of wrong doings.

It seemed like a satire on Watergate and the politics of the time.

Anyone?
Cheers
 
Read the novel! Spark is great, well beyond "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." I don't think that's even in my top 5 of her books.
 
I've got a download of it now, I'll have a go once I've finished my SF book
 
My top five Muriel Spark novels:

1. Loitering with Intent
2. The Girls of Slender Means
3. A Far Cry from Kensington
4. Symposium
5. The Driver's Seat (though, warning: this one's incredibly disturbing)

Nos. 6-8, unranked: The Abbess of Crewe, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Comforters.

Can't really decide among the rest. I've read most of her 21 novels. For number 9, though, I'd probably go to her collected short stories.
 

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