The Holy Girl (La Niña Santa)
She is both temptation and salvation.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 6, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: HBO Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Maria Alche, Mercedes Morán & Julieta Zylberberg | |
Performer: | Alejandro Urdapilleta, Carlos Belloso & Mara Lubos | |
Directed by | Lucrecia Martel | |
Screenwriting by | Lucrecia Martel | |
Produced by | Lita Stantic | |
Director of Photography: | Felix Monti | |
Executive Production by | Pedro Almodóvar, Esther García & Agustín Almodóvar |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
A low-key tone poem about the passions of sex and religion
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Dallas Morning News
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Director Lucrecia Martel's storytelling is spare to the point of being stingy.
Arizona Republic
Rating: 3/4 --
Some of The Holy Girl is hard to follow, but the reward is Martel's ability to create a spiritual yet subtly lecherous mood.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
[A]s events unfold in ways that only become more charged and daringly unresolved, the filmmaker only gets wiser, her camera eye more astute at distinguishing sinners from everyday sins.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: D --
Ultimately turns out to be something of a bore, a film that, like one of its main characters, wanders around touching on subjects and then fleeing before connecting fully.
Detroit News
Elliptical and mysterious, sparse on dialogue but full of jarring close-ups, Lucrecia Martel's second feature has an eerie, dream-like quality...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The film's power comes from Amalia, and from Martel's vivid atmosphere.
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Product Description:
Lucrecia Martel (LA CIENAGA) returns with THE HOLY GIRL, a powerfully understated coming-of-age tale in which a teenage girl grows up in a religiously fervent society. The film takes place during a medical convention in an Argentinean hotel, where its characters stumble upon each other. Amalia (Maria Alche) is a pretty, conflicted teenager who has become consumed with the religious concept of "vocation," which she has been learning in Catholic school. She lives with her divorced mother, Helena (Mercedes Moran), who works at the hotel, and spends most of her time with her mischievous friend Josefina (Julieta Zylberberg). But when a seemingly random stranger rubs up against her in a crowd, she begins to think that she has found her calling. It turns out that the stranger is an influential doctor, Jano (Carlos Belloso), with whom Helena has coincidentally begun to fall in love. The more that Amalia considers this chance encounter, the more determined she is to pursue it.
As if adolescence weren't difficult enough, growing up submerged in a deeply religious Latin American culture makes it all the more challenging. Featuring impressively reserved performances across the board, Martel's film bravely shies away from overly dramatic confrontations. It's the unspoken messages that matter the most in the audacious and deeply luminous THE HOLY GIRL.
As if adolescence weren't difficult enough, growing up submerged in a deeply religious Latin American culture makes it all the more challenging. Featuring impressively reserved performances across the board, Martel's film bravely shies away from overly dramatic confrontations. It's the unspoken messages that matter the most in the audacious and deeply luminous THE HOLY GIRL.
Description by Warner Home Video:
The Holy Girl poignantly captures the lives of two teenage girls, Amalia, daughter to the owner of the hotel, and the girl's best friend Josefina, as they adjust to their growing sexuality and religious passion. After an encounter with the respected Dr. Jano, a physician attending the convention, Amalia confides in Josefina that she is going to deliver him from sin. After submitting to her wishes, Dr. Jano realizes that no matter how good the temptation, nothing is worth the evil it causes.
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- Sales Rank: 113,263
- UPC: 026359275425
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