Dec 12, 2019 · Maternal: Directed by Maura Delpero. With Lidiya Liberman, Denise Carrizo, Agustina Malale, Isabella Cilia. Lu is a disruptive, rebellious teenage mother. She lives with her daughter Nina in a women's refuge run by a group of nuns in Buenos Aires.

Aug 15, 2019 · Young Sister Paola, who is “too pretty to be a nun”, is a more nuanced figure. The religious art in her room instructs her that “Those who have God have everything”, yet in her care for Nina, Luciana’s daughter, she discovers a sense of …

Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation PCPA [3] (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo; April 20, 1923 – March 27, 2016), commonly referred to as Mother Angelica, was an American Roman Catholic nun of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. She was most widely known for the television show Mother Angelica Live.

It's less common nowadays, since recently almost all nuns choose to become sisters. In the past, there were more societal reasons that forced young women into that life. i.e. In a large Catholic family, it was just expected that the youngest son would join the priesthood, and a few daughters would become nuns.

Aug 10, 2019 · That question lies at the heart of “Maternal,” a moving, lively study of conflicting duties and desires in a Buenos Aires hogar — a convent-based refuge for young single mothers — that marks an...

Apr 8, 2025 · In her first feature film Maternal (2019), Italian documentarist Maura Delpero enters a hogar in Buenos Aires where nuns provide a shelter for young and poor single mothers, and within the sacred space of the convent, her camera reveals the complexities of the...

Fati and Lulu (stunning nonprofessional beginners Denise Carrizo and Augustina Malale) are two teenage mothers living in a religious center in Buenos Aires (the Hogar) that shelters young mothers or mothers to be and is run by a bunch of aged nuns that rigorously watch them.

Aug 9, 2019 · Stated simplistically, Maternal is a rare drama about nuns that is made without a trace of piety, sentiment or romanticism. In broader terms, it portrays young women from two...

Aug 15, 2019 · The novitiate Sister Paola (Lidiya Liberman) arrives from Italy, and immediately makes a connection with Nina (“she doesn’t look like a nun,” the child observes). Paola’s presence also disrupts the co-dependent relationship of Lu and Fatima, which eventually leads Lu to disappear one night.

Nov 8, 2019 · “Maternal” takes us through Sister Paola’s journey, a young nun coming from Italy to Argentina to take her vows at a convent that is a home for unwed teenage mothers, called a hogar. Her interactions with the girls, specifically Lu and Fatima, lead to her discovering her longing for having her own children.