Hadewijch
ticketsFilm Information:
Year:
2009
Hadewijch
País:
Director:
Bruno Dumont Color:
Color
Format:
35 mm
Duration:
105 min
Cast:
- Julie Sokolowski
- David Dewaele
- Yassine Salim
- Karl Sarafidis
- Brigitte Mayeux-Clerget
Production:
- DIRECCIÓN: Bruno Dumont
- GUIÓN: Bruno Dumont
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Yves Cape
- MONTAJE: Guy Lecorne
- PRODUCCIÓN: Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin
Contact:
- CDI Films
- Analía Sánchez
- Riobamba 333 - 8º piso
- C1025ABG Buenos Aires, Argentina
- T +54 11 4373 7967
- F +54 11 4374 4219
- E info@cdifilms.com.ar
- www.cdifilms.com.ar
- www.hadewijch-lefilm.com
Synopsis
As we were getting used to his hermetic essays on the most violent and sordid human side, now Bruno Dumont takes a detour with Hadewijch. The most Bressonian of contemporary French filmmakers builds several films into one: it’s a study about the conflict between the vestiges of the medieval world and the speed of contemporary; a view of a France (dis)integrated by immigration from Islamic countries, and the story of Céline, a half-Mouchette-half-Jeanne of Arc character who lives in Île de France. One must admire Dumont’s excessive ambition, which finds in Céline a triggering character whose erotic love for God connects the most diverse topics. According to the film, what separates people is –apparently– religion, but faith is what unites them. Setting himself aside from today’s cynicism surrounding the idea of God, and looking for the epiphanic power of cinema in a radical aesthetics, Dumont makes a theological film, and states without a doubt that all the bombs, the suffering, the racism, and the intolerance cannot break the intensity of spiritual life. Yes, this is fundamentalist filmmaking; but the kind that implodes instead of exploding.
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