This is, out of 6 or 7 Berlinale Festivals I visited, my most surprising first festival film.
Coming Of Age as a letting go of traditional ideals, but keeping them in a state of peace. There is no deeper lying judgement of the ways the convent concerns itself with sex. Luzia and Ana laugh at the celibate, but at the same time the movie doesn't depict the people in celibate as evil forces of old. The Nuns and the conductor…