Saint Maud

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Movie
Original title Saint Maud
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English , Welsh
Publishing year 2019
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Rose Glass
script Rose Glass
production Andrea Cornwell ,
Oliver Kassman
music Adam Janota Bzowski
camera Ben Fordesman
cut Mark Towns
occupation

Saint Maud is a mystery - horror film of Rose Glass , which premiered on September 19, 2019 under the Fantastic Fest and is slated for release in the UK on May 1, 2020th Later in the year it will also be released in US cinemas.

action

Maud, a young nurse, used to work in the public health service; now she was referred to the terminally ill patient Amanda Kohl through a private agency. The once celebrated avant-garde dancer and choreographer has withdrawn to an English coastal town due to her illness and boredly celebrates the last stages of her own mortality. She lets Maud pass the time between visits to her lover, but her carer thinks that dealing with young Carol is not good for her.

Maud repeatedly experiences visions associated with pain that she believes are messages that come from God himself. She firmly believes in her destiny to save the soul of her depressed, hard-drinking, lesbian patient. For her part, Amanda is just as determined to loosen up her strange new caregiver.

production

Rose Glass directed and wrote the script. It is in Saint Maud after a series of, sometimes experimental, music videos and Mystery- and horror short films to her feature film debut as a director. Flashbacks show hospital scenes that, like other clues hidden in the film, suggest that something bad must have happened to one of Maud's previous patients, for which the nurse may have been responsible. Only gradually does the viewer learn that Maud's religious conversion took place only recently and that she has newly adopted the name Maud. Previously her name was Kate and she worked in the public health service. Until the end it is not entirely clear whether Maud is in an ecstatic state in which the supernatural is possible, or what is shown only comes from her imagination, according to Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter .

Jennifer Ehle plays the terminally ill, former dancer and choreographer Amanda Kohl. Morfydd Clark took on the title role of her new carer Maud. Lily Frazer can be seen in the role of Amanda's young lover Carol .

Filming took place in five weeks in North London and the streets of the seaside town of Scarborough in northern England. Ben Fordesman acted as cameraman and Paulina Rzeszowska as production designer .

The film premiered at Fantastic Fest in September 2019. It was due to hit cinemas in the UK on May 1, 2020, with the date later postponed to October 23, 2020. A start date in the USA, also scheduled for spring 2020, has been postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic. In August 2020 he was presented at the Sarajevo Film Festival . The online edition took place via the in-house festival VoD platform.

reception

Reviews

The film was rated positively by 93 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received 8.1 out of a possible 10 points. Frequently was Saint Maud doing with horror films like The Exorcist and Carrie compared, but also with other films with fanatical religious themes such as First Reformed .

Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter writes that since the German Queen Mathilde , who lived in the 10th century, was an overly devout woman, it is not surprising why the main character decided to be re-baptized as Maud after her trauma and to profess Christianity. The disturbed palliative nurse is played by Morfydd Clark with subtle but at the same time glowing passion.

Variety's Guy Lodge compares Maud to Carrie White , and she is played by Clark with brilliant intensity, making her a genre anti-hero who can be treasured at the same time as she wants to protect her and shy away from her. He explains that Saint Maud is not just a horror film, but also a character study and religious inquiry.

Awards

London Film Festival 2019

  • Honorable Mention - Best Picture ( Rose Glass )
  • Nomination for Best Film in the Official Competition (Rose Glass)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Leslie Felperin: 'Saint Maud': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Guy Lodge: Toronto Film Review: 'Saint Maud'. In: Variety, September 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ Bong Joon Ho: Bong Joon Ho's 20 upcoming directors for the 2020s. In: bfi.org.uk, February 25, 2020.
  4. ^ Neil Smith: Horror film wins first-time director Rose Glass £ 50,000 award. In: bbc.com, October 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ Kaleem Aftab: Rose Glass, Director of Saint Maud: “I was interested in the idea of ​​having a film where the central relationship took place inside someone's head”. In: cineuropa.org, October 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ Roda Musa: Filming begins on Film 4's new horror Saint Maud. In: rts.org.uk, November 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ Saint Maud. In: fantasticfest.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  8. ↑ http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/1006378-saint-maud/
  9. ↑ Christopher Campbell: All the Movie Releases Changed by the Coronavirus Pandemic. In: filmschoolrejects.com, March 19, 2020.
  10. ↑ https://www.sff.ba/en/news/11339/kinoscope-2020-lineup-unveiled
  11. ↑ Saint Maud. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 20, 2020.