A softly spoken palliative nurse, Maud (Morfydd Clark), moves into the house of a famous terminally ill dancer, Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), to help make her more comfortable in her last days.
Although initially at odds, the pair soon strike up a close bond. After Maud reveals her intentions to save Amanda’s soul, this bond fractures, and Maud (with the help of God) must do everything in her power to save her charge.Films like Saint Maud don’t come around too often.
This is even more true when it is a director’s first feature film, which is exactly what this is for Rose Glass. Saint Maud is rife with rich layers, technical flourishes, and complex characters that we don’t usually see until much later on in a filmmaker’s career, if at all.
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