2019 1h 24min I knew next to nothing about this film but it was a (un)pleasant surprise. I say that because it was way creepier than I anticipated. A perfect film for Halloween! Morfydd Clark plays Maude, a young hospice nurse who gets a new assignment caring for a dying Amanda (Jennifer Ehle) who lives in a mansion overlooking the coastal Irish town. After some unknown trauma, Maude not only finds God, she starts having ecstatic religious visions/seizures. When she discovers her new charge has led a racy life as a modern dancer, she's determined to save her soul. This is where the film starts to get weird. At a birthday party Amanda throws for herself, she ridicules Maude in from of her friends. After Maude slaps her, she's fired and descends even further into her religious fervor. The film ends with not one, but two plot twists. I did anticipate the first one, but the second took me by surprise. Great acting and storytelling make this a film work watching.
3 1/2 out of five stars.
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