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The Holy Girl, 2004
Spanish
Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, Spain
Profile of The Holy Girl
The mood of The Holy Girl is contemplative, sincere, and touching. The plot centers around religions or cults, coming of age, and teenage life. It is a drama and foreign movie. In approach, The Holy Girl is realistic. The pacing is slow. The setting is Argentina and Los Angeles. The Holy Girl happens in contemporary times.
Summary of The Holy Girl
Lucrecia Martel (LA CIENAGA) returns with THE HOLY GIRL, a powerfully understated coming-of-age tale in which a teenage girl grows up in a religiously fervent society. The film takes place during a medical convention in an Argentinean hotel, where its characters stumble upon each other. Amalia (Maria Alche) is a pretty, conflicted teenager who has become consumed with the religious concept of "vocation," which she has been learning in Catholic school. She lives with her divorced mother, Helena (Mercedes Moran), who works at the hotel, and spends most of her time with her mischievous friend Josefina (Julieta Zylberberg). But when a seemingly random stranger rubs up against her in a crowd, she begins to think that she has found her calling. It turns out that the stranger is an influential doctor, Jano (Carlos Belloso), with whom Helena has coincidentally begun to fall in love. The more that Amalia considers this chance encounter, the more determined she is to pursue it.
As if adolescence weren't difficult enough, growing up submerged in a deeply religious Latin American culture makes it all the more challenging. Featuring impressively reserved performances across the board, Martel's film bravely shies away from overly dramatic confrontations. It's the unspoken messages that matter the most in the audacious and deeply luminous THE HOLY GIRL.
Details
| Language: | Spanish |
| Country: | Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, Spain |
| Release date: | 10 October 2004 |
| Runtime: | 106 min |
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as Amalia
as Helena
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Salon.com
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- by: Andrew O'Hehir
The New York Times
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- by: Dana Stevens
