Just another funny sexy horror movie about God.
You never know when God will come into you.
Her latest assignment is Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), a hedonistic choreographer still smoking through late-stage cancer.
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Maud thinks she’s a soul that needs saving.
The walk from the nurse’s shoebox apartment to the patient’s hilltop home requires a literal ascension.
Writer-director Rose Glass films the short journey with suggestively off-kilter complications.
The mood is gray, though, and Maud’s lonely life looks empty.
The big house exudes a deathly mood, but Amanda’s firecracker attitude sparks with raw energy.
Don’t judge a book by its cover or don’t forget how nasty the Bible can get.
Maud’s relationship with the Almighty is complicated.
I’ll have what she’s having.
And it’s a star-making moment for Clark, who shape-changes creeping desperation behind a mask of apparent reserve.
As it happens, this was the last movie I saw in a theater beforeContagionbecame a documentary.
Her body is a stage forSaint Maud’s demonic dance.B+
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