Those uncertain just how seriously Paul Verhoeven intended us to take the alternately earnest and lurid nunsploitation of “Benedetta” will be even more flummoxed by Mickey Reece’s “Agnes.” , in add…
’s “Agnes.” The prolific, idiosyncratic Oklahoma auteur’s latest is half exorcism thriller, half character drama of lost faith. But those two sharply differentiated parts add up to much less than a coherent whole, in addition to being too underdeveloped and tonally wobbly to satisfy in themselves.
When a young nun suddenly begins ranting obscenities in a “demonic” voice at a Carmelite convent, the bishop informs Father Donaghue that he must attend to the situation. He’s been trained for such possession cases but is most reluctant to go, as he doesn’t “really believe in this medieval woo-woo” anymore, assuming instead that the woman is simply acting out a delusional fantasy.
Roughly at the film’s midpoint, this in-progress crisis is abandoned — its resolution never related — and we leap forward to its aftermath. Now the focus is on Mary , a novice nun who was Agnes’ friend, and who’s since abandoned the vocation. She’s making an awkward reentry to secular life, working a crap big-box-store job for a creepy boss , living in a dinky apartment with an equally untrustworthy landlord. She is visited by people from her old life , who encourage a return to the fold.
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