Film Review – Saint Clare

“Saint Clare” is an adaptation of the 2012 book titled “Clare At Sixteen,” written by Don Roff. From all evidence, the novel has very little to do with the movie version, including the age of the eponymous character, who’s now a college student. Changes have been made to generate a more adult understanding of what’s really YA literature, but writer/director Mitzi Peirone doesn’t do enough to really shake up the threat level of the picture. “Saint Clare” (which was shot three years ago) hopes to be unsettling with its central mystery of missing women, and it looks to define a different kind of heroism with its lead character, a person using divine influence to take on the scum of the city. Peirone doesn’t have the money to make a nail-biter, so she delivers what’s basically an episode of television instead, playing the offering flatly and without surprises. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com