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Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Diana Tuova Spotlight on Film. What ultimately saves Novitiate from its own self-inflicted wounds is the character of Reverend Mother and Melissa...
Watchlist. NEW. Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, NOVITIATE is about a young girl's first initiation with love, in this case with God. Raised by a...
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Oct 27, 2017 · “Novitiate” explores what happens when the girls’ natural sexual urges begin to bubble up—for men they’ve not yet met, for each other, for God Himself—and how they clash with the inherent chastity of their calling.
Oct 26, 2017 · 'Novitiate' explores the agony and the ecstasy of young women pledging themselves to the Lord in 1964 – read Peter Travers' rave review.
Feb 1, 2017 · Written and directed by Maggie Betts, Novitiate is a rare behind-the-scenes look in a pre-Vatican II (1962) convent in the 1950s and 60s at a time of extreme social change. The equally harrowing and frank Novitiate, like Martin Scorsese’s Silence, is about the dangerous consequences and ends in which those that have heard the calling are
Oct 10, 2023 · Filmmaker Interview. Maggie Betts Made the Kind of Sundance Hit We May Never See Again — Making Her Follow-Up Was Much Harder. Betts' "Novitiate" took a path once standard for Sundance gems that...
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Oct 31, 2017 · Despite its very real inspiration (the Second Vatican Council did indeed cause issue for thousands of nuns), Novitiate is not a true story. But the film's themes of faith and sisterhood...
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