The Holy Girl
2004
Sixteen year old 6-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul a middle-aged doctor. Read more
| Starring | María Alche, Carlos Belloso, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán |
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| Director | Lucrecia Martel |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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The Holy Girl
Sixteen year old 6-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul a middle-aged doctor.
| Starring | María Alche, Carlos Belloso, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán, Julieta Zylberberg, Alejandro Urdapilleta |
|---|---|
| Director | Lucrecia Martel |
| Studio | ARTIFICIAL EYE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 44 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Jul 2005 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (5)
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This melancholic but sexually charged study of religious repression, midlife despair and adolescent curiosity is teasingly directed by Lucrecia Martel. As in her debut feature, La Cienaga, Martel quickly establishes a simmering, claustrophobic atmosphere, then swiftly turns the heat up. Mercedes Morán plays divorcee Helena, a woman who seeks solace among the misbehaving medics assembled for a conference in her run-down hotel. Meanwhile, her teenage daughter Amalia (María Alché) devotes herself to redeeming a timid ear, nose and throat specialist (Carlos Belloso) after he lasciviously brushes against her in a crowded street. The principal characters are imbued with an acute sense of dissatisfaction that tempts them towards indiscretion, but the aching sadness of Martel's film is lifted by moments of understated tenderness and wit.
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Martels very fine follow-up to La Ciénaga is again set in that quiet provincial town in northern Argentina,... read more on Time Out
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13 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Beautifully shot.
A great film to watch, beautifully shot and well acted. However some people, like me, will be irratated by the director's irrational anti-Catholicism that permeates the film. If you watch the interview with her in the extras section you will see what I mean. Her 'new ideas' are reactionary to her Catholic upbringing, and have the waft of a stale communism to them. Fortunately for the viewer her talent for subtlety in translating them to the screen is much more a joy to watch than her struggling to articulate them in the interview.
This film will undoubtley take its place in history in Argentine film making. One of those rare films you don't want to end. -
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
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Hmm what was all this about?
Maybe I wasn't in a particular patient mood that day but I didn't get the point of this film and got bored very quickly.
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- Chantal
- Posted 22 Dec 2005 19:55
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