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MPAA RATING: R for some sexual content and brief nudity
Starring Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alche, Julieta Zylberberg, Mía Maestro, Marta Lubos, and Arturo Goetz
Martel intimately explores the burgeoning sexuality and religious fervor of two teenage girls, Amalia (Alche) and her best friend, Josefina (Zylberberg). Artfully piecing together a mosaic of nuanced details, fragments of sounds, and small moments, Martel creates a potent and specific portrait of adolescent life. (Lita Stantic Producciones SA)
| GENRE(S): | Drama | Foreign |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Juan Pablo Domenech
Lucrecia Martel |
| DIRECTED BY: | Lucrecia Martel |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 6, 2005 Theatrical: April 29, 2005 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | Argentina / Italy / Netherlands / Spain |
| LANGUAGE(S): | Spanish (with English subtitles) |
Original title "La Niña Santa"
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Marc K. gave it a2:
I rented this movie because of the high MetaCritic score. Instead, I saw one of the worst films of 2005. The first hour of the picture wasn't even necessary...hardly anything happened. And here I was hanging in there for the ending, only to see credits rolling! Other appropriate adjectives to describe this movie: excruciating, pointless and pretentious.
Bud R. gave it a9:
As the opening scene informs us, it's a film about religious education, either misperceived by the adolescent girls or perceived all too well. Director Martell is on the side of the latter, though she doesn't mind a lot of ambiguity. Humid sexuality, violation, transient living, moral upheaval: that, it seems is the nature of the holy and why not?
Joseph G. gave it a9:
I saw the film twice. Itt reminds me of the best of Eric Rohmer films, but the female characters are better drawn in this film.
Bob E. gave it a9:
A film as mysterious as life itself - and sometimes as vague and disjointed. Whatever its lacks as skillful film and smoothly told story, The Holy Girl more than makes up for in stunning images of female sexuality coming into consciousness. The male characters are such tepid and pathetic little housecats one's fear them (in the face of these lionesses!) almost overcomes the disgust or exasperation they continually inspire. The older female characters - the mother, the grandmother, the religion teach - are by turns confused, cynical, despairing or leading a double life in this stultifying, decadent, yet male-dominated world, which is as corrupt and seedy as the old hotel. The Holy Girl is not a sexy film, since there is no male sexual energy to speak of in it, rather is is directly about sexual power of the female kind. its terrible birth and destructive energy when there is nothing to oppose or balance it.
Pat R gave it a9:
This is one of the most original films I've seen in years. This director has a truly unique sensibility. I took off one point only because maybe the film is, for want of a better term, gratuitously obscure. But still--Lucrecia Martel is obviously very gifted and someone to watch for and the acting is uniformly excellent. It's also very funny in a very deadpan style.
MG N. gave it a10:
This is an amazing movie not least becuase of the action taking place at the corner of the screen. It is brutally funny with some large laughs coming from the least expected places (for example: the woman with the disinfectant spray.) I just saw the film and am contempating going for it one more time tomorrow. It's good, real good!
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