The Holy Girl

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Cast & Crew

Mercedes Morán
Helena

Carlos Belloso
Dr. Jano

Alejandro Urdapilleta
Freddy

María Alche
Amelia

Julieta Zylberberg
Josefina

Mia Maestro
Inés

Marta Lubos
Mirta

Arturo Goetz
Dr. Vesalio

Alejo Mango
Dr. Cuesta

Mónica Villa
Madre de Josefina

Rodolfo Cejas
Josefina's father

Juan Pablo Domenech
Writer

Lucrecia Martel
Writer

Agustín Almodóvar
Co-Producer

Pedro Almodóvar
Co-Producer

Esther García
Executive Producer

Alfredo Ghirardo
Co-Producer

Gustavo Guido
Associate Producer

Nora Kohen
Co-Producer

Matías Mosteirín
Production Director

Lita Stantic
Producer

Álvaro Urtizberea
Co-Producer

Andres Gerzenson
Original Music

Félix Monti
Cinematographer

Santiago Ricci
Film Editing

Lucrecia Martel
Director

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Audience Reviews for The Holy Girl

• Sep 27, 2015

  Whereas in La Ciénaga Martel was always able to maintain a tight structure and focus even with a huge gallery of characters, in this case her notably flawed narrative - despite her usual social commentary and a promising premise - lacks cohesion and seems to go nowhere.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Nov 30, 2009

  "The Holy Girl" is one of the most boring films I've ever seen. Set in a hotel during a doctors' conference, it chronicles myriad banalities such as people having lunch together silently. Then we watch maids doing laundry. Then the children of hotel employees take religion classes together. Then teenage girls wash their hair, etc. One banal sequence after another. One girl who lives at the hotel starts to have feelings of longing for one of the doctors at the conference after he touches her in a provocative way one day. She starts following him around the hotel, and he tries to avoid her. The girl's mother also develops a mild crush on this doctor, which is hard to understand because he barely ever speaks or does anything interesting. Almost no one says anything interesting. There is practically no script at all. I cannot understand what writer/director Lucrecia Martel thought was so interesting about all these banalities. Her most recent film, "The Headless Woman," was vastly more interesting. By contrast, "The Holy Girl" has almost no content whatsoever. This is a must-avoid.
  William D Super Reviewer
• Sep 29, 2008

  Martel defies the canonized "Catholic" topics by alienating the values of love,detest and sickness.Inner sickness,vacant passion and finally,that tempest called teenage years.The languid pace of the film doesn't repulse the viewer,on the contrary...I felt more repulsed by the holiness of certain characters,thus giving me a reason to disrespect their religiousness.
  Super Reviewer
• Aug 02, 2008

  Love her or hate her, Martel's vision and approach to story structure are absolutely unique.
  Rhady N Super Reviewer