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Modern mysticism with Bruno Dumont's new film 'Hadewijch', a thoughtful meditation as austere and introspective as its troubled heroine. The story is like a religious parable, cryptic and open to endless interpretation. Read my full review: http://www.brnrd.net/blog/archive/2010/01/30/iffr-hadewijch

Mikel

17Apr12

Every Frame is just perfect, it flows and and the same time the restrain provides so much into the sacred. It's like Dumont is a reincarnation of Bresson. Not easy to forget the scene where she's inside of the church and a chamber quartet is playing Bach.

stoyanov

5Apr12

Dumont delivers again. He's quickly becoming one of my all-time favorite directors.

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suddenmoves

10Mar12

Really pulls it together for those last 10 minutes, turning an interesting film into a really powerful one.

julia

2Feb12

In this work Dumont reduces the gap between spirituality and awareness even more. It's a film about the physical embodiment of faith as the truth. About the possibility to trust and become conscious. It's pity that in our days we can talk about it on screen only through extremism. Elevating!

Aaron Garrett

19Jan12

A really beautiful film for adults that doesn't judge it's characters. I thought the last fifteen minutes were exquisite. And the inevitable "Dumont moment" was more subtle than expected. It out Bresson's Bresson in some ways, without being misanthropic. Really surprised by this one. Also exquisitely shot and excellent use of music and sound.

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Michael S. Templin

5Feb12

"Dumont moment"

David Grillo

19Jan12

Here is a film I've grappled with since seeing it and it has since won me over. I don't think I'll forget it. Also what is the name of that band that plays with the accordion I remember moving back in forth rocking out in my seat quietly in a theater. Prob. my favorite captured performance by a band in any film I just love the way they shot that..

Aaron Garrett

6Feb12

The accordian scene is up there with the best filmed music scenes I've ever seen in a film. The way Dumont lets it go on and unfold is just amazing.
David Grillo

11Feb12

Have you seen the Life of Jesus? I was tempted to buy it without seeing it it's out on the Eureka Masters of cinema series.
Aaron Garrett

11Feb12

I haven't seen it, but I have seen an amazing sequence from it with young men riding minibikes through the woods. I've been meaning to rent it, but now that I see its out on Eureka I'll buy it. Thanks for the heads up.
David Grillo

15Feb12

Maybe I'll wait for your thoughts on the film before I make a blind buy myself...lol. I'm usually okay with a blind buy but I've been burned before by filmmakers first films. Oh Accattone.

Adnan X. Khan

12Jan12

An evocative mediation on love, faith and sacrifice by way of ethnography.

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Colton Bose

23Feb11

The ending almost ruined it for me, but even still, this film is utterly beautiful.

oldblackdawning

12Jan11

Also, there is also a correction needed for the info given on this site. The film's aspect ratio is not Dumont's usual 2:35:1; it is actually 1:66:1.

oldblackdawning

12Jan11

J. Pomp, I think the 105 min is the official runtime: the film is that length on the French DVD. However, I do know that IMDB states that the film's length was 120mins for the Toronto World Premier. Surely that is another mistake? Dumont wouldn't have recut after then, would he? If there is a longer version I would love to see it. Every single moment of Hadewijch was amazing.

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J. Pomp

6Jan11

What a shame that we're getting a 105 min cut in the U.S. Just saw it today and loved it, but it definitely felt truncated, so I hope to get my hands on the full 120 min version one of these days.

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Linda Crisan

22Dec10

That beautiful scene where they pray, each in his own faith; the absence of God as Its very presence; faith as action - Hadewijch engaged me and my own shifting faith.

Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa

21Nov10

And Julie Sokolowski deserves a whole single character study, as does his other film leads.

Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa

21Nov10

Amazing. Bruno Dumont keeps an outstanding quality in his cinema, and this film is no exception. While downgrading sex and violence in this film, he has kept the element of alienation and spirituality that permeates his ouvre and through a slow pacing, he has reached the transcendence of the subject matter. One of my top 3 Dumont films.