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The Holy Girl ( Spanish: La niña santa) is a 2004 Argentine drama film directed by Lucrecia Martel. The film was executively produced by Pedro Almodóvar and features Mercedes Morán, María Alche, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, and Julieta Zylberberg.
May 6, 2004 · The Holy Girl: Directed by Lucrecia Martel. With Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alché. 16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.
Apr 29, 2005 · Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl.
Amalia (María Alche) is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr....
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1h 46m. In the town of La Cienaga, Amalia lives with her attractive, divorced mother, Helena, and her uncle, Freddy, in the crumbling, run-down Hotel Termas, which her family owns and runs.
The Holy Girl (Spanish: La niña santa) is a 2004 Argentinian drama film directed by Lucrecia Martel. The picture was executively produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García.
Apr 29, 2005 · The Holy Girl - Metacritic. Summary 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.
A film defined by chance encounters amid a thick atmosphere of sexual impropriety, Catholic anxiety, and confusion and coincidence, The Holy Girl's narrative unfolding echoes young Amalia's experiences during an especially formative period in her development into womanhood.
A chance encounter between Amalia and Dr Jano, who is attending a medical conference at the hotel, allows the young girl to at last find her vocation- to save a man from sin. Dr Jano will be caught up in a web of good intentions. The respected provincial doctor's world is on the brink of collapse.
THE HOLY GIRL. Drama. 100. CAUTION. Triangulating adolescence with liminal spaces of hotels and pools, Lucrecia Martel followed a seismic debut with an exquisitely framed, richly textured examination of desire. Kissing, tonguing, and touching are acts of divine calling as much as rites of passage in this astounding coming-of-age film. Trailer.
