The Holy Girl
2004 · Movie · R · 106 min · ★ 6.6 · 76% critics
A devout teenager at a hotel hosting a medical convention struggles to reconcile religious conviction with a confusing sexual awakening after an older visitor behaves inappropriately. Convinced she has a spiritual calling, she begins closely following him, setting off uneasy tensions among the guests and her own family.
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Details
- Original title
- La niña santa
- Years
- 2004
- Release date
- 2004-05-06
- Language
- Spanish
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Critic score
- 76/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (102 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy quiet, unsettling dramas about faith, desire, and blurred boundaries, told with subtle humor and open-ended answers; Not for you if you need clear plot payoffs or tidy closure like in The Zone.
Pros: provocative moral questions; absorbing, subtle mood; strong performances | Cons: slow, drifting pace; unclear at first; ambiguous, abrupt ending
Themes
- hotel
- teenage girl
- doctor
- woman director
Cast & crew
María Alché
as Amalia
Mercedes Morán
as Helena
Julieta Zylberberg
as Josefina
Carlos Belloso
as Dr. Jano
Alejandro Urdapilleta
as Freddy
Mía Maestro
as Inés
Marta Lubos
as Mirta
Arturo Goetz
as Dr. Vesalio
Alejo Mango
as Dr. Cuesta
Mónica Villa
as Madre de Josefina
Directed by Lucrecia Martel