
Saint Maud
Synopsis
There, but for the grace of God, goes Maud, a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable demeanor causes her to pursue a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud's fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward's soul from eternal damnation - whatever the cost. Making her feature-film debut, writer/director Rose Glass cannily lures the audience into this disturbed psyche, steadily setting up her veritable diary of a country nurse for an unnerving and ultimately shocking trajectory. Morfydd Clark (also at the Festival in The Personal History of David Copperfield) portrays the sanctimonious Maud with an intense stoicism that belies a disquieting vulnerability, as Maud desperately vies for absolution and solidarity from her embittered patient (an enthralling Jennifer Ehle, also at the Festival in Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies). Glass tenderly captures this relationship with an empathetic gaze that first assumes an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere - but it isn't long before Maud's dogmatic candor incites an irreconcilable friction that spirals her mind into a suffocating confluence of creeping doubt and paranoia. As Glass tightens the screws on her misguided martyr, well-placed nods are made to religious horror forerunners like William Friedkin's The Exorcist, further contributing to the film's increasingly dread-filled malaise. And when this insidious fever climatically breaks, the consequences are devastating and terrifying in equal measure.
Production Budget Analysis
The production budget for Saint Maud (2020) has not been publicly disclosed.
CAST: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer, Lily Knight, Rosie Sansom, Caoilfhionn Dunne DIRECTOR: Rose Glass CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ben Fordesman MUSIC: Adam Janota Bzowski PRODUCTION: Film4 Productions, BFI, Escape Plan
Box Office Performance
Saint Maud earned $1,640,866 in worldwide box office revenue.
Profitability Assessment
Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.
INDUSTRY IMPACT
PRODUCTION NOTES
▸ Production
The film was developed by Escape Plan Productions with funding from Film4 Productions and the British Film Institute. In November 2018, it was announced Clark and Ehle had joined the cast of the film, with Rose Glass directing from her own screenplay. Principal photography began that same month in North London and Scarborough, and lasted for five weeks.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Summary: Nominated for 2 BAFTA 11 wins & 33 nominations total
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