Director Frieda Luk on Olivia Luccardi’s ‘Sacred Creatures’ Role and the Fine Line Between ‘Crazy’ and ‘Enlightened’

Director Frieda Luk on Olivia Luccardi’s ‘Sacred Creatures’ Role and the Fine Line Between ‘Crazy’ and ‘Enlightened’

For “Sacred Creatures” director Frieda Luk, belief can be comforting, ridiculous, exhilarating and hard to explain. “I’m really fascinated by when people believe in something,” she tells Variety. “One person believes in something, and then a group of people, and then it slowly becomes this massive phenomenon. It goes viral.” That fascination drives Luk’s debut […]

Frieda Luk's "Sacred Creatures" - Edinburgh Film Fest 2026 Review

Olivia Luccardi delights as would-be prophet whose immediate family is more skeptical than others in this amusing meditation on faith. The post Edinburgh Film Fest 2026 Review: Olivia Luccardi is the Life of the Party in Frieda Luk’s “Sacred Creatures” appeared first on The Moveable Fest.