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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. By Guy Lodge. Courtesy of The Sundance...
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 · 'Novitiate' explores the agony and the ecstasy of young women pledging themselves to the Lord in 1964 – read Peter Travers' rave review.
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...
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Oct 26, 2017 · “Novitiate” avoids both the laundered piety of that movie and the sensationalism that hovers around the subject of women and religion.
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