The Guardian reviews The Last Bath, a Portuguese drama making its belated UK debut on digital platforms, more than five years after it first screened at festivals in 2020. The film centres on a devout nun, Josefina, whose settled, self-denying existence is disrupted when she is called back to her childhood village to care for her orphaned 15-year-old nephew, drawing her into an increasingly uncomfortable emotional and physical closeness with him.

Anabela Moreira is praised for a restrained, intense performance as Josefina, whose acts of care for her nephew Alexandre gradually reveal a possessive, transgressive undercurrent of desire. Director David Bonneville is credited with handling the material's spiritual, familial and sexual tensions with subtlety for much of the runtime, though the review notes the ending feels unsatisfyingly forced compared with the ambiguity that precedes it.