Anyone expecting cantankerous old women who have lost their marbles blurting out outrageous comments might be surprised that this is not Loose Women the movie but instead nun centric light comedy, Holy Days.
Holy Days. Holy film?
Based on Joy Cowley’s novel and written and directed by Nat Boltt the film sees three aging nuns Sister Agnes (Judy Davis), Sister Mary Clare (Jacki Weaver) and Sister Luke (Miriam Margolyes) residing in a large and increasingly delapidated convent. But their care and good will contrasts with a local priest Father Findlay (Jonny Brugh) with a penchant for booze and cigarettes and along with Bishop Chayter (John Bach) the pair sell off the convent to property developers.
Into the mix is thrown Brian (Elijah Tamati) who knocks on the convent door on a daily basis stating that he has sinned and needs redemption. But all of this is an excuse because really he is still grieving for his late mother and that his father is now shacked up with another woman hardly helps him process his grief and he finds solace and comfort with the three nuns. These early scenes with Brian struggling to cope are both tender and moving as he hides in a cupboard crying as he clutches items belonging to his mother perhaps most moving of all is him hiding in a confessional praying for his mum to somehow return is heart breaking.
Road trip….
But he tags along with the nuns on a road trip in a car they appropriate from the priest unknown to him in a bid to save their convent by getting hold of the deeds to the property. Off they set across a stunning new Zealand landscape and comedy ensues or at least that’s the intention. But nuns and comedy is a furrow well ploughed in films such as ‘Sister Act’ and ‘Nuns on the Run’ perhaps being the most well known and the nuns doing things contrary to perceived expectations has been a comedy staple for decades and it’s a tradition which Holy Days continues. So we have the expected mildly risqué moments of the nuns smoking, losing their dentures, farting and so on but we’ve seen it all before and it culminates in the expected sentimentality. But at the heart of the film and where the real joy lies in Holy Days is the trio of veteran actresses.
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Here’s the trailer….
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