Novitiate

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.

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Margaret Betts directed Novitiate in 2017. See Margaret Betts's full filmography, where to start with Margaret Betts, or where to go after you've seen everything by Margaret Betts.

Novitiate was released in 2017 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 123 minutes.