Saint Maud 2020

O, what things isolation and loneliness make of us.

It was as though she was a shadow in her own life. Even when she sat beside a lamp, she was covered in darkness. Light never seemed to truly touch her and when it did, the warmth of it always fell on her in sickly yellows. It never quite rested naturally against her skin.

Benedetta 2021

The Novitiate (2017)

There were a handful of scenes where asl was being spoken but the subtitles gave no insight into what was being shouted or whispered. I know there was no sound to be heard but I still think body language has volume.

The rigidity, fluidity, speed, etc... all inform how something is being communicated. There were key moments where you were not allowed to open your mouth to speak. Grand Silence. During this time asl was used and I wanted to know what they said. I do not know enough sign language to understand everything that was said with their hands so I read their eyes, the tension in their chest or the way their proximity to the person they were speaking to, changed.