Movie Premiere - NOVITIATE - SUNDAY, SEPT 17
7:00 PM, screening at 8:00 pm
"The film marks an impressive first foray into starring vehicles for
Margaret Qualley, ideally cast as a teenage nun-in-training whose devotional conflicts coincide with the Vatican's radical reform of the Catholic Church in the early 1960s. But the most searing material here is reserved for
Melissa Leo, who's entirely startling as a merciless Mother Superior whose very sense of spiritual purpose is rocked by the new schemata."
Guy Lodge, Variety Sundance Film Festival Review
About the Film:
Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, NOVITIATE is about a young girl's first initiation with love, in this case with God. Raised by a non-religious, single mother in rural Tennessee, a scholarship to Catholic school soon finds Cathleen drawn into the mystery and romanticism of a life devoted to the worship and servitude of God. With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical changes in the Church are threatening the course of nuns' lives. As she progresses from the postulant to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, often inhumane realities of being a servant of God. Cathleen finds herself struggling with issues of faith, sexuality, and recent changes in life of the Church.
EVENT DETAILS:
Sunday, Sept 17 at 7:00 pm for
wine and light refreshments at the Atlantic Highlands Arts Council Gallery, 54 1st Ave, Atlantic Highlands followed by the movie screening.
The two-hour film, rated R, will be shown at Atlantic Cinemas, 82 1st Ave., at 8:00 pm.
TICKETS: $20; $10 for students under 18 (bring student ID).
Purchase tickets at the door.
Proceeds benefit FilmOneFest's mission to provide free access to the arts. Please bring a non-perishable food item for the Atlantic Highlands Food Pantry as FilmOneFest supports the Food Pantry at all its events.
The AHAC thanks Tom Bernard and Sony Pictures Classics for providing this film and for their continued support of FilmOneFest, and thanks Atlantic Cinemas for hosting this digital screening.
FilmOneFest
is a project of the AHAC, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The mission of the Arts Council is to strengthen community through the arts. For more information, go to www.
aharts.org
. This program is made possible in part by Monmouth Arts through funding from the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders and The New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
