“Novitiate” is a love story about a girl in a relationship with a guy who just doesn’t seem to be paying much attention to her. It’s a fairly typical tale, except the girl is a 17-year-old nun in ...

At the tail end of the 1960s, in the wake of the Catholic Church’s Vatican II reforms to transform the church into a more progressive global entity, thousands of nuns left behind their habits and ...

Margaret Betts' debut film centers on a young woman entering the convent at the beginning of the Vatican II reforms. Critic David Edelstein says... 'Novitiate' Captures A Watershed Moment In The Life ...

NOVITIATE focuses on a young woman preparing to become a nun in the early 1960s, just as the Catholic church is poised on the brink of the sweeping changes of Vatican II. Maggie Betts wrote and ...

A girl-meets-boy love story where the boy just happens to be God, Novitiate is an intriguing if somewhat opaque movie, a feverish testament to the long reach and hard limits of faith. Margaret Qualley ...

Leo recently sat down with Peter Travers. — -- Melissa Leo continues to flex her diverse acting chops in the new historical drama “Novitiate.” The Oscar winner, 57, stars as the imposing Reverend ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film, set in the early 1960s, tells the story of a young woman, Sister Cathleen (Qualley), who starts to question her Catholic ...

They’re not made very often, and audiences don’t always applaud (Audrey Hepburn in “The Nun’s Story” is the notable exception) but films dealing with what goes on behind convent or monastery walls ...

The Oscar winner gets characteristically candid about playing a role she'd long hoped to land, and the challenges of being a strong woman at any age. But the Reverend Mother’s ability to wield ...

Chris Knight: The feature debut of director Margaret Betts, Novitiate is a quiet, remarkably moving story You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

Melissa Leo stars as an austere Mother Superior in the new film. By Ariston Anderson The 22nd edition of the Capri, Hollywood International Film Fest is taking shape. Novitiate will open the event Dec ...

This is FRESH AIR. This past January, Margaret Betts won the breakthrough director award at the Sundance Film Festival for her feature debut "Novitiate." It's a coming-of-age story set in the 1960s ...