Subtle, intelligent treatment of a place where some believe miracles happen. Ailing folk of all kinds...some believers, others more cynical...go there to be cured of what ails them. They go for physical cures but the place and its staff trade more in psychic healing.
Heavy emphasis on the ritual behavior and its effect on the pilgrims which, since it was part of my childhood, I found familiar and comforting. The story focuses on a young woman with MS. She experiences a remission but the film leaves open the question whether this is temporary.
The story is underplayed nicely. They even manage to weave in a love interest...also obliquely played. Strangely satisfying.
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