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This is the best low budget film, I’ve seen since Dead Mans Shoes.
However, it really won’t be for everyone, as it‘s very slow and a real head bender at times.
It’s described, as a psychological horror film, but it’s more a study of how acute loneliness, can descend it extreme psychosis, with an element of horror; towards the end.
A shy and lonely young nurse ( Maud ) is stuck off, following an accident at work and ends up working as a private nurse, for a rich lady, who is dying of cancer.
Bit by bit, the young nurse becomes convinced that God is speaking to her and has placed her on the earth to save the soul of the lady who she is looking after.
Morfydd Clark is truly outstanding as Maud and there are real parallels, between the roll she plays and that of Robert de Niro in Taxi Driver, as she exists on the edges of society and slowly slips into madness.
The real beauty of the film, is that it toys with you, as you’re never really sure, if she’s going mad or if God, is actually talking to her.
It was on Film4, so it’ll be on again.
Recommended, if you want a real thinking film, that‘s incredibly sad, as much as disturbing.