Synopsis
A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.
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Cast
- Julie SokolowskiCéline vel Hadewijch
- Yassine SalimeYassine Chikh
- Karl SarafidisNassir Chikh
- David DewaeleDavid
- Brigitte Mayeux-ClergetLa mère supérieure
- Michelle ArdenneLa prieure
- Sabrina LechêneLa novice
- Marie CastelainLa mère de Céline
- Luc-François BouyssonieLe père de Céline
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Dumont makes movies that almost nobody wants to see. That doesn't make him a great filmmaker, but he's a great filmmaker all the same. - 90
Salon
Bruno Dumont's Hadewijch is one of two small-release art films this season that deliver nuanced and fascinating portraits of faith. - 90
The New York Times
If Hadewijch is Mr. Dumont's most overtly religious film, it is not pro-faith in any specific way, although the director clearly respects the religious impulse. - 80
Time Out
There's a darker, fanatical side to blindness too-and this is the movie to show it. Leave all judgments behind. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
As in "L'Humanité" and "Twentynine Palms," the director presents a cogent study of emotional excess with a sure handed control that harkens back to Robert Bresson. - 80
Village Voice
With Hadewijch, he (Dumont) endorses something like the Dardenne brothers' rugged, squalid secular humanism, offering the barrier-breaking embrace as vague alternative to Despair, Church, or Capital. - 75
New York Post
An exploration of the power of religion -- should delight Dumont's fans. For others, it will take a bit of getting used to. The effort will prove to be worthwhile. - 38
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Dumont's fans might find this latest exercise enjoyable, but his style of filmmaking is an acquired taste. I doubt those without that taste are going to acquire it here.
