The New Boy
2023, Film, 116 min, Drama, Fantasy, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 62
A mysterious new arrival disturbs a delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
In a remote monastery in 1940s Australia, a mission for Aboriginal children is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen. A new charge is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers. When the monastery takes possession of a precious relic, a large carving of Christ on the cross, the new boy encounters Jesus for the first time and is transfixed. However, the boy’s Indigenous spiritual life does not gel with the mission’s Christianity and his mysterious power becomes a threat. Sister Eileen is faced with a choice between the traditions of her faith and the truth embodied in the boy, in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Directed by Warwick Thornton
Cast
- Cate Blanchett as Sister Eileen
- Aswan Reid as New Boy
- Deborah Mailman as Sister Mum
- Nathan Lawson as Policeman #1
- Peter Jupiter as Tracker
- Kit Fortune as Polceman #2
- Kenneth Radley as Policeman #3
- Wayne Blair as George
- Shane Mckenzie Brady as Michael
- Tyrique Brady as Matthew
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