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Mariette in Ecstasy

07/04/1996

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1hr 41min

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Drama

STORY

In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, Mariette Baptiste, educated daughter of the local doctor, enters the cloistered convent of Our Lady of the Afflictions as a postulant. Her religious fervor, understated but determined, makes an impact on the small community of nuns whose days and nights are measured in a round of prayer and farm work changing only with the seasons. Their ordered life is disrupted, however, as Mariette begins to fall into a series of trances from which she awakens with stigmata, which heal as spontaneously as they appear. The feelings of skepticism, jealousy and adoration evoked in the nuns, Mariette's own response and that of the Mother Superior are delicately, indelibly presented.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Geraldine O'Rawe
  • Alex Appel
  • John Mahoney
  • Mary McDonnell
  • Cara Pifko

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • Savoy Pictures
    • Price Entertainment

      Production Countries

    • United States of America

    LANGUAGES

    • English

    Cast

    Geraldine O'Rawe

    Mariette Baptiste

    Alex Appel

    Sister Philomene

    John Mahoney

    Dr. Claude Baptiste

    Mary McDonnell

    Prioress

    Cara Pifko

    Sister Hermance

    Eva Marie Saint

    Mother Saint-Raphael

    Nancy Beatty

    Sister

    Rutger Hauer

    Chaplan

    Leigh Taylor-Young