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Seventeen-year-old Ainara falls in love with Jesus and wants to enter a convent. Is Christ’s calling transcendent love or manipulation by the nuns, as her atheist aunt claims?
Ainara is 17 years old when she experiences an earth-shaking love. Even though she’s had a crush once before – and is still kind of crushing on her co-chorister Mikel –, this love is so all-encompassing that she’s ready to leave everything else behind. Specifically, that’s what it requires if one wants to become the bride of Jesus – and Ainara loves Jesus so deeply she wants to enter a monastery.
To some loved ones Ainara’s choice comes as a shock. Her aunt Maite, critical towards the Catholic church, thinks the mystical “call of Jesus” is nothing but the school’s priests’ and nuns’ manipulation, and that the girl leans into religion to fill a void caused by her mother passing when she was a child.
The film by Ruiz de Azúa is convincing, for the story is carried in equal parts by mystical fervour and composed rationalism. Convincing is as well the work of the film’s female stars Blanca Soroa (Ainara), Patricia López Arnaiz (Maite) and Nagore Aramburu (abbess Isabel). In its home country Spain, Sundays has convinced both the film audience and the juries: the film won the award for best film in San Sebastian Film Festival and the five most important Goyas (including best film, best director and best leading actress).
Sari Selander (translated by Vilja Hynynen)
Screenings
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Kinopalatsi 7Sat 19.9. at 20.45–22.40115 min, 1/4
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Kino TöölöSun 20.9. at 17.00–18.55115 min, 2/4
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Kino Engel 2Wed 23.9. at 20.30–22.25115 min, 3/4
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Kino Engel 2Sun 27.9. at 15.30–17.25115 min, 4/4
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