On Earth as in Heaven (2023)

Original title

Sur la terre comme au ciel

Directed by

Nathalie Saint-Pierre

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

G

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl raised in a strict religious compound travels to a big city to find her runaway sister. With help from her aunt, she starts to understand a world very different from the one she left behind.

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What happens

On Earth as in Heaven (French: Sur la terre comme au ciel) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Nathalie Saint-Pierre and released in 2023. The film stars Lou Thompson as Clara, a young girl being raised in an isolated Christian fundamentalist cult compound; after her older sister Sarah (Philomène Bilodeau) runs away from the community, Clara goes to Montreal to find her, staying with her aunt Louise (Édith Cochrane) and learning about the world in ways she was never exposed to by her parents. The cast also includes Édith Dandenault, Jean Drolet, Jérémie Verrette, Antoine Archambault, Dominik Dagenais, Alexandrine Agostini and Cédric Egain. The film premiered in November 2023 at Cinemania, and had its U.S. premiere at the 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival. It is slated to go into commercial release in April 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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