“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 ...

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 ...

For her role in “Novitiate,” Margaret Qualley went as far as to “use the discipline” on herself — and wound up icing bruises and welts. For those unfamiliar with old-Catholic ways, “using the ...

Maggie Betts' Sundance premiere is filled with superior performances, but Qualley is its revelation. What makes a young woman choose to be a nun? In Margaret Betts’ revelatory “Novitiate,” which ...

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 ...

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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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Nuns often can't get a fair shake in the movies. They are portrayed as either one-dimensional saints or run-of the-mill monsters. Or they get trotted out for comic relief.

Cathleen is in love, madly. She fantasizes about the ceremony, the dress she'll wear, the words she'll speak. She dreams of that day when she can stand up and pledge her life's devotion. She is, ...

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 ...