It is a " stark and striking biographical account of the late 19th century Discalced Carmelite nun who died at age 24 from tuberculosis and was canonized in 1925."
"Simone Bourday has genuine adolescent fervour as Thérèse and André Marnay is pathetically fine as her father.
The film follows Thérèse Martin as she moves from the close circle of her family home in Lisieux to the austere world of the Carmel, where she joins her older sisters Pauline and Marie.
In this film version of the saint's life the Devil (François Viguier) appears, before her taking of the veil, and again when she lies ill in the infirmary.
He torments me and holds me with a grip of iron to deprive me of all consolation, trying by increasing my sufferings to make me despair.