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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.
Novitiate, the feature-length debut of Sundance Film Festival's Breakthrough Director winner, Maggie Betts, is a stylish and ambitious take on a historical moment in the transformation of...
Novitiate: Directed by Maggie Betts. With Melissa Leo, Lisa Stewart, Alyssa Brindley, Chelsea Lopez. Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.
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- Drama
- Maggie Betts
- 2017-01-20
Oct 24, 2017 · Novitiate 4 out of 5 stars Suffused with equal parts spirituality and doubt, this ’60s-set drama about nuns in training explores conflicts that transcend Christianity.
- Margaret Betts
Oct 24, 2017 · Directed by Margaret Betts, Novitiate opens at this complex historical turning point. Kathleen (Margaret Qualley), a 17-year-old living in middle America, finds comfort in the church and makes the decision to become a nun.
Melissa Leo delivers an incredible performance in this film, one which is easily worthy of at least a nomination for an Oscar. There is also a strong performance from Julianne Nicholson, who plays Nora, Cathleen's mother.
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Oct 27, 2017 · Those who complete the introduction then enter a grueling year-and-a-half of nun training called Novitiate, led by the strict Reverend Mother (Melissa Leo), a woman with a fondness for self-mortification and a hatred for what she calls “particular friendship” (aka sexual activity between the nuns).
