Saint Maud (2019)

There, but for the grace of God, goes Maud, a reclusive young 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 cancer, Maud’s fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward’s soul from eternal damnation – whatever the cost.

Making her feature film debut, writer-director Rose Glass cannily lures the audience into this disturbed psyche, steadily setting up her veritable diary of a country nurse for an unnerving and ultimately shocking trajectory. Morfydd Clark (also at 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 patient (an enthralling Jennifer Ehle, also at the Festival in Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies). Glass tenderly …

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Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery

IMDB Rating: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7557108/

IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 From 2,818 Users

Resolution: 1920x800

Directed by: Rose Glass

Starring: Morfydd Clark , Jennifer Ehle , Lily Knight , Lily Frazer

Release Name: 1080pweb-dldd51h264-evo

Release Date: 12 February 2021 (USA)

Audio: English | AC3 | 384 kb/s

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

Subtitles: N/A