The Holy Girl

I very recently saw The Holy Girl.
I liked certain elements of the movie and I found others very mundane.

The story

The film takes place in the small town of La Ciénaga, at the Hotel Termas, a dilapidated Argentine hotel, during a medical conference.

Two young teenage girls, Amalia (María Alché) and her best friend Josefina (Julieta Zylberberg), begin to explore their new sexuality and, at the same time, have Catholic religious passion.

Amalia lives with her attractive divorced mother (Mercedes Morán), who owns the hotel, and her uncle Freddy (Alejandro Urdapilleta).

During this time, in Amalia's mind, spiritual and sexual impulses are seeming to converge.

One day, in the midst of a large crowd during a musician performing on a theremin at a demonstration window, Dr. Jano (Carlos Belloso), a participant in the conference, rubs up sexually against Amalia. She is upset but takes his inappropriate action as a sign that her Cathiloc faith has given her a mission: to save the Dr. Jano from such inappropriate behavior.

Afterward, the object of Amelia's desire becomes the married middle-aged doctor and she begins to spy on him.

Amalia's story is partly about an adolescent girl's discovery of her sexual vulnerability and the sexual power she possesses.

I found the girls story interesting.
The mother was interesting.
Dr. Jano just kinda 'sucked'.
Growing up going to Catholic school I could identify whith all I was seeing and hearing. I could put myself there and totally understand JOSEFINA...(see the movie- you will understand why).
Even though the movie got rave reviews, I wouldn't sit through it again.
I thought it took an incredibly long time to get to any important juncture. The time that it took, to get from one scene and one act to another, dragged on and on, with no addition of meaning to the plot...
Eh...