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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 non-religious...
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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 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. It’s a time of flux for the Catholic Church, though.
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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- 2017-01-20
Oct 24, 2017 · Is faith escapism or an act of surrender? In grappling with the essence of spirituality, Novitiate—not unlike Martin Scorsese’s Silence—asks more questions than it supplies answers.
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Starring Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Morgan Saylor, Dianna Agron, Julianne Nicholson, Liana Liberato, Denis O'Hare, and Maddie Hasson, the film follows a young woman (Qualley) who starts to question her faith as she trains to become a nun.
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Nov 3, 2017 · By avoiding the temptation to rail against religion and instead offer an introspective and respectful look at it, Novitiate becomes that rare thing: a movie willing to show the flaws of Catholicism without dwelling on its negatives.
