Novitiate (2017)

Directors

Maggie Betts

Cast

Margaret Qualley, Sasha Mason, Eliza Mason, Melissa Leo, Julianne Nicholson, Dianna Agron

The story

Cathleen grows up in an unstable family in 1950s rural Tennessee; after attending a Catholic girls' school and watching her mother Nora's life fall apart, she becomes attracted to the Catholic faith and decides to join a convent when she is seventeen. At the Sisters of the Beloved Rose convent she is under the control of the Mother Superior, who is cold and traditional. She imposes strict punishments on the young postulants spending their first months at the convent; comparatively, the nun overseeing the postulants' direct education, Sister Mary Grace, is warm and progressive, allowing them frivolity.

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