Synopsis
The Novice (2021) is a psychological drama you can watch online on iFILM. College freshman Alex has always needed to be the best — at everything, whether it matters or not.
Chasing a full scholarship, she joins the university rowing team despite never having held an oar. What follows isn't really sport, it's compulsion: pre-dawn workouts until her palms bleed, starvation, no sleep, a willingness to wreck herself just to make the top varsity boat. Her rivalry with a more naturally gifted rower curdles into a war with her own mind. Isabelle Fuhrman — once the creepy girl from Orphan — throws herself at the role.
It's the directing debut of Lauren Hadaway, a sound editor on Whiplash, and the kinship shows: the same relentless beat of perfectionism tipping into self-destruction. Harsh, anxious filmmaking about ambition eating a person alive. Stream The Novice online on iFILM.
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