Movie review: Director Maggie Betts' taut feature 'Novitiate' goes behind convent walls in the '60s
They're not made very often, and audiences don't always applaud (Audrey Hepburn in "The Nun's Story" is the notable exception), but films dealing with what goes on behind convent or monastery walls have what it takes to involve.
As those who've seen Michael Powell's classic "Black Narcissus" or the more recent French films "The Innocents" and "Of Gods and Men" can testify, questions of faith may sound dry, but they often make for intensely dramatic, even pulse-pounding cinema. "Novitiate" is the
