She’s the draconian head sister at the convent where young Cathleen enlists during the early 1960s.
You gotta love nun movies, all furtive whispers and crisp white fabrics.
Sony Picture Classics is most likely thumbing their rosaries in hope of an Oscar nomination or two, too.
But Leo’s fearsome Reverend Mother has troubles of her own, getting trapped in the past as the Papacy undergoes upheavals to doctrine spurred by the social change beyond the church’s walls.