"Keisha Castle-Hughes, the 16-year-old New Zealand actress (and the youngest-ever best-actress Oscar nominee, for Whale Rider a few years ago), seems entirely unfazed by the demands of playing Mary. She has the poise and intelligence to play the character not as an icon of maternity, but rather as a headstrong, thoughtful adolescent transformed by an unimaginable responsibility. Mary’s stubbornness and her honesty make her entirely believable, and the film’s most subtle and lively dramatic thread concerns her maturation from an ordinary Nazareth teenager into a wife and expectant mother." New York Times
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