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Saint Maud Movie Storyline. 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.
Saint Maud is a 2019 British psychological horror film written and directed by Rose Glass in her directorial debut. It stars Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2019. It is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2020 by StudioCanal.
Saint Maud (2020)
Directed by: Rose Glass
Starring: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight, Lily Frazer, Turlough Convery, Rosie Sansom, Marcus Hutton, Noa Bodner, Fiona Thompson, Joanna Richardson, Jonathan Milshaw
Screenplay by: Rose Glass
Production Design by: Paulina Rzeszowska
Cinematography by: Ben Fordesman
Film Editing by: Mark Towns
Costume Design by: Tina Kalivas
Set Decoration by: Anna Mould
Art Direction by: Isobel Dunhill
Music by: Adam Janota Bzowski
MPAA Rating: R for disturbing and violent content, sexual content and language.
Distributed by: A24 Films
Release Date: March 27, 2020
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