Drama. Starring Julie Sokolowski and Karl Sarafidis. Directed by Bruno Dumont. (Not rated. 105 minutes. At the Roxie Cinema.) Everybody loves movies. They love movies for the stories and the ...

A former philosophy professor, 52-year-old writer-director Bruno Dumont got his start making commercial films in the ’80s, eventually penning a novel that served as the basis for his extraordinary ...

With all the cultural focus on religious extremism and faith-driven acts of violence since 9/11, very few films have captured the experience of spiritual ecstasy without parody or condescension. (One ...

Enthusiasm is to be expected from a postulant nun, but there are worries about Hadewijch (Julie Sokolowski). Fingers knotted around her crucifix, surrendering her starvation diet of bread crusts to ...

How do you solve a problem like "Hadewijch"? Sabrina Lechene, left, and Julie Sokolowski in 'Hadewijch.' The titular nun in Bruno Dumont's French drama won't eat, she won't dress warmly -- sacrifices ...

The disturbing, violent, neo-Bressonian work of the French film-maker Bruno Dumont has waxed and waned in potency over the years: his Life of Jesus (1997) and the bizarrely compelling Humanity (1999) ...

To borrow from Rogers & Hammerstein: How do you hold twenty-nine palms upon your hand? The answer is to jam the stems into your stigmata. French pseudo-artsploitation practitioner Bruno Dumont's ...

Following in the grand tradition of austere European filmmakers, Bruno Dumont gives religious faith quite a workout in his new film, “Hadewijch.” Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone ...

Bruno Dumont’s austere, grimly luminous film “Hadewijch” takes its title from the name of a 13th-century poet, Hadewijch of Antwerp, whose work “The Paradoxes of Love” describes the agony and ecstasy ...

Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the ARTE France Cinéma, 3B Productions, Pictanovo drama flick. Hadewijch starring Julie Sokolowski, Yassine Salime, Karl Sarafidis, David ...

"Hadewijch," an unsettling exploration of a young Christian girl's overwhelming faith in God, is one of Bruno Dumont's more balanced works, an intimate psychological portrait pregnantly poised between ...