When the police stop the young woman on her way to the convent in the Italian countryside, they wonder why such a person would choose to become a nun. As they rummage through her luggage — a search conducted because she has no return ticket — they ask, in English, if joining a convent was a difficult choice. The woman scans their faces in confusion before responding: “I don’t see it as a decision,” she says with bitter force.
For Sister Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney), the American nun at the center of Michael Mohan’s oddly cartoonish film Immaculate, a life-long devotion to God is the least she can do. When the young woman, who grew up outside of Detroit, was a child, she drowned in an icy pond and legally died. Paramedics revived her after she stopped breathing for seven minutes. The experience changed Cecilia, although Andrew Lobel’s screenplay seems...
For Sister Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney), the American nun at the center of Michael Mohan’s oddly cartoonish film Immaculate, a life-long devotion to God is the least she can do. When the young woman, who grew up outside of Detroit, was a child, she drowned in an icy pond and legally died. Paramedics revived her after she stopped breathing for seven minutes. The experience changed Cecilia, although Andrew Lobel’s screenplay seems...
- 3/13/2024
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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