The review

She wants to be a nun, and she wants to be an exceptional one, and the order is not interested in the second want. The training is long. The work in a hospital in the Congo is the vocation as a job: patients, a difficult doctor, a climate, a competence she has to put under obedience. When the war comes to Europe, obedience and the need to act come apart. The film does not throw a party when she lays the vow down. It does not condemn her either. It thinks a vow is heavy, which is the respect.

I would watch this before any picture of these years that treats faith as a costume or as a punch line. Adults and older teenagers. Ask what she wanted that the order kept trying to quiet. The answer is to be remarkable. The order's answer is that the work does not need her to be remarkable. Whether the order is right is the conversation afterward, and it is a better conversation than the decade usually offers a living room.