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Her Will Be Done

Que ma volonté soit faite

Director Julia KOWALSKI

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★Avg. rating

As an adult, Nawojka prays fervently to God every dawn. She begs to be freed from the miserable life shackled by all the hard labor on her family’s farm. Yet her prayers remain just prayers. The fear that she might be haunted by a demon, just like her mother who died possessed by an evil spirit when Nawojka was young, leaves her paralyzed. One day, a rebellious girl named Sandra appears before her. Growing closer to Sandra, Nawojka experiences a sense of liberation for the first time. Around that time, a chilling event occurs—the farm′s cows mysteriously die each night. Her Will Be Done is director Julia Kowalski’s second feature film, focusing on Polish immigrants in France. It is a provocative work that blends realism with elements of the occult. The film features striking imagery and poetic mise-en-scene that pay homage to classic horror films such as Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976) and David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996). Its feminist narrative, which uses possession as a motif to explore and subvert the essence of witch hunts, also provokes intellectual interest.