The film is a psychological period drama that follows an English nurse’s immaculate investigation in the Irish countryside. Set in 1862 Ireland, Lib Wright is brought to a small religious village to investigate the validity of a young girl who has claimed to have survived without eating for months by the grace of God. Tom Burke, Ciarán Hinds and Elaine Cassidy also star.
“For me, before anything, it was really important to figure out who [Nurse Wright] was.” Pugh said. “Lib is a Nightingale nurse, and during that time, Nightingale nurses were seen as the purest people. They were almost higher than being a woman during that era. Women were narrow, they didn’t belong to anything. They belonged to their husband and they were sold with property. And to be a Nightingale nurse meant you were actually listened to.
Lelio explained that his own background in Catholicism and intrigue in the relationship between conviction and reason drove him to make the film. “I grew up in the south of Chile during dictatorship in a very Catholic country. So I have my connections to the story, but then I read the novel and really loved it,” he said. “My first connection was with the two women at the center. Florence’s character, this rationalist confronting this community of fervent believers, somehow operating that belief system of a deformed reality so it fits what they believe up to the point that maybe a girl could die because of that.
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