# La scelta (2017)

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**Original title**: *Novitiate*
**Runtime**: 123 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Margaret Betts
**Written by**: Margaret Betts
**Starring**: Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Julianne Nicholson, Dianna Agron, Lisa Stewart, Morgan Saylor

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Catholic school meets coming-of-age as a sharp 1960s novice bats away dogma with hormones while the Church lurches toward modernity. A coming-of-age crucible in starch collars and doubt. The gulf between heaven’s call and the inner heat gets a bracing 1960s updraft.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, slow-burn, tender

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