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Saint Maud

YOUR SAVIOR IS COMING.

Fiercely religious nurse Maud (Morfydd Clark) has been assigned to a terminally ill dancer, Amanda Kƶhl (Jennifer Ehle), and comes to believe that her mission is to save Amandaā€™s soul. Rose Glassā€™s unpleasant directing debut lets us share the protagonistā€™s perspective and religious visions in a dark, foreboding way, a peek inside a sick mind thatā€™s leading her mercilessly toward disaster. The corporeal aspects of Maudā€™s work, tending to Amandaā€™s physical needs, also becomes an effective part of the horror. Boosted by a convincing performance by Clark as a Joan of Arc figure, on a crusade only she can understand.Ā 

2019-Britain. 84 min. Color. Widescreen. Produced byĀ Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman. Written and directed byĀ Rose Glass. Cast: Morfydd Clark (Maud), Jennifer Ehle (Amanda Kƶhl), Lily Knight (Joy), Lily Frazer, Turlough Convery, Rosie Sansom.

Last word: “I’m not too fussed about the genre question anymore. We had a lot of discussions about that whilst developing it, but I don’t think I consciously thought of it as a horror film. But I always knew that it would be heightened and stylized and not super naturalistic, or maybe even realistic. One of my producers, when he first read the treatment I put together, said, ‘Oh, this feels like a horror film.’ I kind of went, ‘Okay.’ [It] didn’t change how I was thinking about it too much.” (Glass, Elle)

 

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