HD 84 min
Saint Maud
Director: Rose Glass
Stars: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight, Lily Frazer
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 ...
HD 84 min
HD 118 m
Eter
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Jacek Poniedzialek, Zsolt László, Andrzej Chyra, Ostap Vakulyuk
Ether is a story of a military medical doctor experimenting with science at the beginning of the 20th century in order to get power over other...
FHD 1h55m
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