Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen
Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: October 13, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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1
Negative:
0
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Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerOct 26, 2010
Although von Trotta seems to regard von Bingen – played with a cool ferocity by Barbara Sukowa – as some sort of medieval feminist precursor, there are enough fault lines in the portrayal to subvert hagiography. Read full review
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The New York TimesStephen HoldenOct 26, 2010
Vision offers a hard-headed view of 12th-century religiosity in which church politics and money conflict with the characters' asceticism. It portrays Hildegard as a passionate humanitarian and a lover of nature. Read full review
70
NPRElla TaylorOct 26, 2010
So it's no surprise that this stately but inert biopic wakes up only when von Bingen becomes less of a singing-nun superstar and more of a human unglued by her own flaws. Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyOct 26, 2010
Although its claims about Hildegard's modernity and relevancy should be taken with a grain of salt, one readily imagines Vision attracting a cross-section of the curious, not limited to feminist cinephiles and true believers. Read full review
70
Village VoiceNick PinkertonOct 26, 2010
Vision is more immediate and immersive when dealing in the jealous attachments among sisters; when circumstance and politics tear Richardis from Hildegard, Sukowa's performance rears to towering heights of abjection. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenDec 9, 2010
Von Trotta's film is informative, instructive, intriguing, and polished, yet it finds no ecstasy – religious or otherwise. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfOct 26, 2010
Writer-director Von Trotta, an icon of the New German Cinema, doesn't have the technical chops for the fireworks you desire, so she settles for wan earnestness. Read full review
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