Holy Days Review: Three Great Actors Keep the Faith
Being told that your usefulness has expired is a peculiar kind of death. The body remains, the habits remain, the people you love remain, yet an institution has quietly decided that the life you built can be packed into boxes and reassigned.
Nat Boltt’s Holy Days, adapted from Dame Joy Cowley’s novel and set in 1970s Aotearoa, hides that melancholy inside a gentle road comedy. Sisters Agnes, Mary Clare, and Luke are elderly Catholic nuns living in a deteriorating convent that church authorities plan to sell. Their response is wonderfully improper. They take Father Findlay’s car, head south in search of a property deed that might save their home,
