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● “ALL SEERS ARE DE FACTO unstable,” says the investigating rationalist, Professor Nichols (played by Harvey Keitel), at the outset of an imagined 1989 interview with Sister Lúcia (played by Sonia Braga), a framing device for re-telling the story of the 1917 Marian apparitions at Fátima in Marco Pontecorvo’s new film of that name.
Professor Nichols did not exist, but he serves the dramatic function of questioning Sister Lúcia, now a Carmelite nun, about the visions she had as a child, which are shown in extended flashbacks.
