A film about a lonely young woman with multiple sclerosis who goes on pilgrimages to escape her isolation might not sound like edge-of-the-seat stuff, but Jessica Hausner’s Lourdes manages to be deeply moving, wryly funny and utterly gripp­ing. Probing the nature of faith, interrogating rather than decrying the miraculous and asking quest­ions about God’s relationship with the world, Hausner’s script is beautifully nuanced and her direction tautly controlled, allowing the characters and situations to develop in a quiet, unforced way, while the performances – especially that of the captivating Sylvie Testud – are uniformly excellent. With a Bresson-like moral sense and a Tatie-esque eye for the social dynamics of groups, Lourdes is a minor miracle in itself.