SAINT MAUD Cast and Crew Q&A | TIFF 2019
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- There, but for the grace of God, goes Maud, a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable demeanour causes her to pursue a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud's fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward's soul from eternal damnation - whatever the cost.
Making her feature film debut, writer-director Rose Glass cannily lures the audience into this disturbed psyche, steadily setting up her veritable diary of a country nurse for an unnerving and ultimately shocking trajectory.
Morfydd Clark (also at the Festival in The Personal History of David Copperfield) portrays the sanctimonious Maud with an intense stoicism that belies a disquieting vulnerability, as Maud desperately vies for absolution and solidarity from her embittered patient (an enthralling Jennifer Ehle, also at the Festival in Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies). Glass tenderly captures this relationship with an empathetic gaze that first assumes an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere... but it isn't long before Maud's dogmatic candour incites an irreconcilable friction that spirals her mind into a suffocating confluence of creeping doubt and paranoia.
As Glass tightens the screws on her misguided martyr, well-placed nods are made to religious horror forerunners like William Friedkin's The Exorcist, further contributing to the film's increasingly dread-filled malaise. And when this insidious fever climatically breaks, the consequences are devastating and terrifying in equal measure.
A masterpiece and one that will stick with you forever. Well done Rose Glass and company!
Rose is going to be someone to keep an eye on. She knows her shit.
The thing that impressed me most about her direction was that she can bring great visual style on a low budget. The visuals and cinematography in both her movies I saw was very good. The portrayed the narrative very well, very emphatically. That's the hand of a good director. We have had 2 very good female directors in Justine Triet and Rose Glass. Lets hope they continue to do the good work they did with their breakout movies Anatomy of a Trial and Love Lies Bleeding.
I am a Christian and i understood the underlying message of this film. I thank Rose for bringing this film to reality because it truly represented blind faith and literally tore at my beliefs.
This guy chairing needs to calm down. We are not at a Wrestling match.
ARE YOU READY TO RRRRUMBLLLLLE?
A typical yank
movie of the year for me
After I wach this movie I feel an urge to set my self on fire 🔥
What Rose says is so interesting but I think she speaks so quickly that people don't catch what she's saying
Also she does not hold the mic close to her mouth lol
Aaaaaw Rose was so nervous.
Priceless last "question"?! wut
Great stuff
Cant fuckin wait for this
My brain🙃
Rose Glass seems way posher than I thought she'd be. I thought she was Welsh lol. The woman who is like "we British are obsessed with class" was SUPER defensive too. Off putting
Put the Bible down and go to therapy guys. Thanks for my coming to my TedTalk.
Rose Glass didn't like being asked about Class did she? Very revealing.... @15:10 The film was 3/5 stars for me, but its disappointing to discover that the director is another Middle class, NFTS educated posho
Toffs dominate every area of society.
Jealousy gives you wrinkles