Saint Maud

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 captures this relationship with an empathetic gaze that first assumes an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere - but it isn't long before Maud's dogmatic candor incites an irreconcilable friction that spirals her mind into a suffocating confluence of creeping doubt and paranoia. As Glass tightens the screws on her misguided martyr, well-placed nods are made to religious horror forerunners like William Friedkin's The Exorcist, further contributing to the film's increasingly dread-filled malaise. And when this insidious fever climatically breaks, the consequences are devastating and terrifying in equal measure.

It's by far my favourite film, a rousing, titanic epic that's so ambitious it seems to transcend the boundaries of cinema and go to places I've never seen the medium venture before.

This is a very cute movie. Lily Frazer is at his best and complements Jennifer Ehle perfectly. This is a must see!!!

It is a movie that i would watch again... loved everything about it!!!

Director Rose Glass provokes killer performances! And this is awesome!!! go and see this film because you wont be disappointed.

Fantastic movie, my wife and I loved it.

Rose Glass has crafted a wildly creative, utterly original and bold film!

I have always liked Rose Glass. Now I have to say that this movie actually best of the best!

Great fast film. We loved it. Jennifer Ehle never disappoints.

Not for the uneducated viewer. the cast is beautiful! Lily Frazer does a very good job making us love his. Jennifer Ehle was a character i loved and surprised me how well he acted in his role.