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Mater Superior
Mother Superior
Austria 2022
produced by Judith Doppler, Kurt Mayer for Kurt Mayer Film
directed by Marie Alice Wolfszahn
starring Isabella Händler, Inge Maux, Jochen Nickel, Tim Werths, Diana Reuchlin, Patricia Aulitzky, Florian Troebinger, Thomas Gföller, Marie Sturminger, Vasilisa Grebenshikova, Antonia-Alexa Georgiew, Sara-Lisa Bals, Gersin Livia Paya
written by Marie Alice Wolfszahn, music by July Skone, Stefan Voglsinger
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Sigrun (Isabella Händler) accepts a job as nurse at Baroness
Heidenreich's (Inge Maux) mansion as her nurse, since the old woman
suffers from Parkinson's and also starts to show signs of dementia. But
Sigrun has an ulterior yet totally understandable motive for working at
the Baroness's, as she, an orphan, has been moved from foster home to
foster home for all her life without knowing what her real name is or who
her mother was and what has happened to her. She has traced her mother
down to a Nazi-facility for unwedded mothers in World War II, a facility
that was headed by Baroness Heidenreich back when. All records from back
when are supposed to have been destroyed in a fire, but searching the
mansion she finds them in the Baroness's possession, and also finds the
folder on herself is mysteriously empty - suggesting the Baroness actually
knew who she was prior to employing her. And indeed Sigrun soon finds
herself in an unexpected game of cat and mouse with her the mouse, as the
Baroness has ulterior motives herself - and soon Sigrun is sucked into a
downward spiral that involves a weird cult, sinister experiments, and also
eternal life - for the Baroness ... Purely technically
speaking, this is a very well-made movie, a piece of slowburn horror that
keeps one guessing throughout, that makes great use of its locations, and
that has a gothic feel to it. And the cast sure hold their own, too. Thing
is, the whole thing's a bit over-constructed, tries to pack a few too many
elements into its story for one to follow, and somehow loses plausability
in the process. That's not to say the film isn't still enjoyable, it just
lacks a bit in stringency to develop to its full, dark potential.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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