In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Direction
Hausner's static frames turn pilgrims into specimens in a divine petri dish.
Acting
Sylvie Testud's face does what dialogue refuses to.
Cinematography
Clinical beauty that makes holiness look suspiciously like surveillance.
Director
Jessica Hausner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hausner filmed actual Lourdes pilgrims as extras; many didn't realize it was fiction, which explains the documentary unease.
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