novitiate

Set in Rome in 1971 just before the events of the first movie, “The First Omen’s” central figure is Margaret Daino, a dewy, virginal American novitiate played by Nell Tiger Free.

Maggie Betts’ follow-up to the under-appreciated ‘Novitiate’ is an unabashedly crowd-pleasing courtroom drama with a lot on its mind.

Maggie Betts’ follow-up to the under-appreciated ‘Novitiate’ is an unabashedly crowd-pleasing courtroom drama with a lot on its mind.

But Betts, whose first feature was the absorbing monastic drama “Novitiate,” has a gift for subverting and fulfilling expectations at once, and also for turning the strictures of traditional establishments inside out.

Father Doran entered the Spiritan novitiate in 1952 and graduated with a degree in philosophy from University College Dublin in 1955.