2009 · drama · biography · historical
Vision
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta1h 50m2009
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.
Our read: Vision (2009) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · biography · historical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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How Vision feels to watch.
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