Empire Australasia

SAINT MAUD

OUT NOW CERT TBC / 83 MINS

DIRECTOR Rose Glass

CAST Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight

PLOT In a depressed seaside town, Maud (Clark), a deeply religious live-in nurse, leaves the British National Health Service and takes a job looking after Amanda Köhl (Ehle), a terminally ill ex-dancer with a pitch-black worldview and a razor-sharp tongue. More than just providing palliative care, Maud soon becomes filled with a calling from God to save Amanda’s soul.

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