Saint Maud (2019) R | 1h 23min | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 1 May 2020 (UK)

There, however for the grace of God, goes Maud, a reclusive younger nurse whose impressionable demeanor causes her to pursue a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by most cancers, Maud’s fervent religion shortly conjures up an obsessive conviction that she should save her ward’s soul from everlasting damnation – no matter the price. Making her function movie debut, writer-director Rose Glass cannily lures the viewers into this disturbed psyche, steadily organising her veritable diary of a rustic nurse for an unnerving and in the end stunning trajectory. Morfydd Clark (additionally on the Festival in The Personal History of David Copperfield) portrays the sanctimonious Maud with an intense stoicism that belies a disquieting vulnerability, as Maud desperately vies for absolution and solidarity from her embittered affected person (an enthralling Jennifer Ehle, additionally on the Festival in Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies). Glass tenderly …

Follows a pious nurse who turns into dangerously obsessive about saving the soul of her dying affected person.

Director:
Rose Glass

Writer:
Rose Glass

Stars:
Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight |
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Motion Picture Rating
(MPAA)

Rated R for disturbing and violent content material, sexual content material and language