El prodigio

Few actresses have the present situation of Florence Pugh. With one foot in the mainstream but without giving up on her most personal projects, the charismatic Miss Flo is the figure with whom everyone wants to work. In the new feature film by Sebastián Lelio, she returns to creating period piece in order to embody the world of a nurse who is sent to a small Irish town to decipher a mystery that, according to the community, is miraculous: a girl is still alive despite the fact that she has not eaten anything for months. The patient assures that the reason why she does not suffer any consequences is divine, but the nurse begins to challenge the faith of both the girl and all the inhabitants of the village. Starting from a precise idea, the Chilean director builds a strange form of period piece cinema to talk about religious dogmas, superstitions and cruelties.