Review of Novitiate (2017) by Emily A — 29 Jun 2018

Spoilers*** a good exploration of repressed sexuality, but I kind of wish they didn't advertise this as being about the implementation of Vatican II causing people to expect it to be about the nuns who spent their lives depriving themselves and treating themselves harshly based on an idea that is just written off.

There was a lot of potential here that just wasn't gone into, but the way it shifted was cool and good, so it is okay. Melissa Leo's character was too much of a caricature for either scenarios though.

Somehow the old nun who wants the new nuns to abuse themselves just because she is an asshole doesn't really add any real insight into faith or repressed sexuality.