Saint Clare

Clare is new in town and lives with her hippie grandmother Gigi. High school is already a challenge for the religious girl, because where others may be into
K-Pop and Taylor Swift, for Clare St. Joan of Arc is the ultimate poster girl. And then there’s her dark side: In pursuit of balancing justice in the world, she rids society of criminal subjects - preferably men who target the weaker sex. When she sends a particularly vile specimen over the Jordan one day, Clare is forced to realize that the man was not an isolated offender and immediately stumbles into a dangerous murder mystery, the investigation of which could shed light on why young women have been disappearing in this small town for years. Mitzi Peirone not only pays homage to her incredibly present leading actress Bella Thorne, but, with the help of her cinematographer Luka Bazeli, conjures up a light-infused play of colors on the screen, whose powerful primary tones are more than just an homage to the classic gialli of her Italian homeland. A modern, feminist thriller full of carefully calculated nastiness.