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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 27, 2017 · A girl-meets-boy love story where the boy just happens to be God, Novitiate is an intriguing if somewhat opaque movie, a feverish testament to the long reach and hard limits of faith.
- Leah Greenblatt
- 3 min
Jan 21, 2017 · Film Review: ‘Novitiate’ Margaret Qualley and a fire-breathing Melissa Leo make vivid impressions in Maggie Betts' intelligent, ambiguous nunnery drama.
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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- Maggie Betts
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- Margaret Qualley
Oct 26, 2017 · Even though the questions are part of a centuries-old ritual, “Novitiate,” written and directed by Maggie Betts, takes their content seriously and understands that they are not synonymous.
- Maggie Betts
Oct 27, 2017 · A 17-year-old enters the convent and struggles with herself and the mother superior, who's played by Melissa Leo. Film critic David Edelstein has this review.
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Oct 26, 2017 · Novitiate is a film about nuns in a strict order who must come to terms with the implications of Vatican II, the reforms enacted by the Roman Catholic church in the 1960s that were meant to...
