Synopsis
The Holy Girl (La niña santa, 2004) is a drama by Argentina's Lucrecia Martel, available to watch online on iFILM. It unfolds almost entirely inside a faded provincial spa hotel hosting a medical conference.
Teenage Amalia lives there too — her mother runs the place. A first stirring of desire and a fierce Catholic devotion wake in her at once, and the two tangle when Dr. Jano presses against her in a crowd. Rather than recoil, Amalia decides that saving this sinner is her calling, and begins trailing him through the corridors. Martel shoots it all close and hushed: whispers behind doors, muffled sound, frames that feel crowded and warm.
The film played in competition at Cannes and sealed Martel's name among the sharpest voices of new Argentine cinema. A slow, humid study of faith and longing, for viewers ready for arthouse that refuses to explain itself. Stream The Holy Girl (2004) online on iFILM.
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