The serious handling of each character’s rationalisations is what both amuses and unsettles.
Ascetic and unwavering, the film's gaze on the ultimate form of religious devotion offers the viewer few comforts but plenty to chew over. Not for Nic Cage fans.
A absurdist demolition of extremism in all its forms.
A girl becomes convinced of her sacrificial destiny in Dietrich Brüggemann’s strangely moving film.
A stylistically formal film about a young woman determined to offer her life to God packs a considerable emotional punch.
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