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Holy Girl (The)
Original Title
La niña santa- Director: Lucrecia Martel
- Writer: Juan Pablo Domenech; Lucrecia Martel
- Producer: Agustín Almodóvar; Pedro Almodóvar
CGiii Comment
ENT physicians gather at a provincial hotel in Salta. The hotel owner, Helena, is subdued, brittle, avoiding the calls of her ex-husband's pregnant wife. Family dysfunction seems everywhere. Helena's daughter, Amalia, about 14, discusses vocations in a Catholic girls group. Their teen imaginations conflate the erotic, the religious, and the lurid. Amalia notices Dr. Jano, and he notices her. She decides to make him her vocation, she follows him, he rubs against her in a public crowd, he's appalled at his actions. Meanwhile, Helena believes Jano is attracted to her even though he's married. Longing, guilt, scandal, and teen sensuality are set to collide.
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Cast & Characters
Mercedes Moran as Helena;
Carlos Belloso as Dr. Jano;
Alejandro Urdapilleta as Freddy;
Maria Alche as Amalia;
Julieta Zylberberg as Josefina;
Mia Maestro as Ines;
Marta Lubos as Mirta;
Arturo Goetz as Dr. Vesalio;
Alejo Mango as Dr. Cuesta;
Monica Villa as Madre de Josefina;
Leandro Stivelman as Julian;
Manuel Schaller as Thermin player;
Miriam Diaz as Miriam;
Rodolfo Cejas as Josefina's father;
Maria Victoria Mosca Coll as Local girl