Ahead of its theatrical release this March, a poster and trailer have arrived online for writer-director Warwick Thornton’s drama The New Boy.
Cate Blanchett stars as Sister Eileen, a renegade nun who runs a mission Indigenous Australian children in a remote monastery in 1940s Australia. When a nine-year-old boy (Aswan Reid) arrives in the dead of night, the sister finds herself caught in spiritual struggle when the child displays a mysterious power that does not gel with the mission’s Christianity. Watch the trailer below…
In a remote monastery in 1940s Australia, a mission for Indigenous Australian children is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen. A new charge is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers. When the monastery takes possession of a precious relic, a large carving of Christ on the cross, the new boy encounters Jesus for the first time and is transfixed. However, the boy’s Indigenous spiritual life does not gel with the mission’s Christianity and his mysterious power becomes a threat. Sister Eileen is faced with a choice between the traditions of her faith and the truth embodied in the boy, in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
The New Boy arrives in cinemas on March 15th.
