The Holy Girl (2004) La niña santa
The Holy Girl (2004)
DVDRip | MKV | 714x464 | x264 @ 1772 Kbps | 104 min | 1,46 Gb
Audio: Español AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Français, Español
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 714x464 | x264 @ 1772 Kbps | 104 min | 1,46 Gb
Audio: Español AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Français, Español
Genre: Drama
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writers: Juan Pablo Domenech (contributing writer), Lucrecia Martel
Stars: Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta
ENT physicians gather at a provincial hotel in Salta. The hotel owner, Helena, is subdued, brittle, avoiding the calls of her ex-husband's pregnant wife. Family dysfunction seems everywhere. Helena's daughter, Amalia, about 14, discusses vocations in a Catholic girls group. Their teen imaginations conflate the erotic, the religious, and the lurid. Amalia notices Dr. Jano, and he notices her. She decides to make him her vocation, she follows him, he rubs against her in a public crowd, he's appalled at his actions. Meanwhile, Helena believes Jano is attracted to her even though he's married. Longing, guilt, scandal, and teen sensuality are set to collide.
IMDB - 4 wins
Even though the discovery of one's burgeoning sexuality is a common theme in cinema, "La niña santa" ("The Holy Girl" in English) still bears watching. Teenage girl Amalia has two experiences in a dilapidated hotel that will change her life forever: an exploration of her sexuality with her friend Josefina, and a microaggression from a doctor.
The significance of Amalia's Catholic schooling was ambiguous. The movie makes clear that Amalia thinks that she has to save the doctor from this inappropriate behavior. What I couldn't quite figure out was whether the movie treated her Catholicism as a virtue or a problem. In the end, what's important is the focus on the contrast between sexual vulnerability and sexual power. Having seen this movie, I hope to see more movies by Lucrecia Martel.
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The Holy Girl (2004) La niña santa
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