In a stressful, complicated age such as this, there’s much to be said for wanting to pursue a quiet, contemplative life, the attraction to which can be quite strong once one gets a taste of it. So it is for the Cistercian sisters of the Santa Rita Abbey, who reside in a modest monastic compound in the idyllic, stunningly beautiful high desert of southern Arizona. These remarkable women, profiled in filmmaker Victoria Westover’s intimate and revelatory new documentary, have freely chosen to commit themselves to this humble, stable and dutiful but eminently satisfying way of life by following the...