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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...
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
The film is about a young girl named Cathleen (Margaret Qualley) who has decided at the age of 17 that she wants to enter the convent and devote her life to God. The film follows her, and a group of other young women joining the convent alongside her, throughout the process to become a nun.
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.
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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.
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Oct 27, 2017 · Raised by a non-religious, single mother in rural Tennessee, a scholarship to Catholic school soon finds Cathleen drawn into the mystery and romanticism of a life devoted to the worship and servitude of God. With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical changes in the Church are threatening the course of nuns’ lives.
