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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 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.
Glass tenderly captures this relationship with an empathetic gaze that first assumes an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere--but before long, 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.
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Saint Maud
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Saint Maud Main Theme
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Maud's Theme
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Köhl / Nosebleed
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Palliative Care
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God On the Couch / Blake Portent
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I Think It Went Well
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Succubus
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Revelation
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My Savior
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Holy Water
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Bedside Manor
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Scissors
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Saint Maud
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all the good girls go to hell
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Arrival
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The Blessing
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Reborn
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I Am The Witch Mercy
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Mopping Up
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Lipstick To Void
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Careless
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Tiny Sticks
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Dance
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Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)
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J.R. Shannon:
Writer
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Heartlines
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You're No Good
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At Home He's A Tourist
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The Associate
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I Saw the Light
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