Australian actress Cate Blanchett, fresh off her Oscar-nominated performance in Tar, stars as an eccentric nun at a monastery in 1940s Australia that takes in an indigenous boy with intriguing powers in The New Boy, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Newcomer Aswan Reid plays the titular nine-year-old New Boy in the film by Warwick Thornton based on his own experience of walking into a church for the first time at the age of 11.
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