Trailer for ‘Novitiate’ Starring Melissa Leo & Julianne Nicholson
Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer for Maggie Betts’ upcoming religious drama Novitiate. Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, the film is about a young girl’s first experience with love. In this case, her first love is God. Raised by a vehemently non-religious, single mother in rural Tennessee, a scholarship to Catholic school soon finds Cathleen drawn into all the mystery and romanticism of a life devoted to the worship and servitude of God. With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical changes in the Church are threatening the course of nuns’ lives. Cathleen finds herself struggling with issues of faith, sexuality, and the changing administration. As she progresses from the postulant to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, often inhumane realities of being a servant of God.
Margaret Qualley, Dianna Agron, Morgan Saylor, Liana Liberato, Eline Powell, Chris Zylka, Denis O’Hare, Maddie Hasson, Chelsea Lopez, Ashley Bell, REbecca Dayan, Kamryn Boyd and Marco St. John also star. The film opens in theatres October 27, 2017.