Saint Maud
2021
Saint Maud
- Release: 2019 ( 12 Feb 2021 )
- Genre: ✯ Drama ✯ Horror ✯ Mystery
- Language: English, Welsh
- Country: UK
- Runtime: 84 mins
- Rating: 7
- Quality: ✯ 720P WebRip
* WebRip: same quality as BluRay, but ripped earlier from a streaming service
Plot summary
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 …
Writer :
Rose Glass
Actors : Morfydd Clark| Jennifer Ehle| Lily Knight| Lily Frazer|