The Holy Girl

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-05-06

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, Spain

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (2581 Reviews)

Director:

Lucrecia Martel

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Mercedes Morèn Carlos Belloso Alejandro Urdapilleta Marèa Alche

Writer:

Juan Pablo Domenech (contributing writer)

Lucrecia Martel

Fullplot:

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.

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