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  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary 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. She had a fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of w...

Directed By: Margarethe von Trotta

Written By: Margarethe von Trotta

  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 50 m

Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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. She had a fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of w...

Directed By: Margarethe von Trotta

Written By: Margarethe von Trotta

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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83
Oct 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.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 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.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 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.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 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.
By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 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.
By John P. McCarthy FULL REVIEW
67
Dec 9, 2010
Von Trotta's film is informative, instructive, intriguing, and polished, yet it finds no ecstasy – religious or otherwise.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 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.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARD Degeto Film, Celluloid Dreams, Clasart Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Concorde Filmed Entertainment
Release Date Oct 13, 2010
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.visionthefilm.com/
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Awards

German Film Awards
• 2 Nominations
Bavarian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
German Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination

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