“The most authentic of Duvivier's religious films, this is a stark and striking biographical account of the late-nineteenth-century Carmelite nun who died at age twenty-four and was canonized. Simone Bourday has genuine adolescent fervor as Thérèse and André Marnay is pathetically fine as her father. The sequence of the taking of the veil has extraordinary documentary force. The same material inspired Alain Cavalier's 1986 masterpiece Thérèse” (Lenny Borger).