Rotten
There was obviously much to this woman, yet somehow Visions feels curiously empty feeling.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
2009 · 1h 50m · Unrated
Drama, History
Directed by
Margarethe von Trotta
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Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Margarethe von Trotta Director
- Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard von Bingen
- Heino Ferch as Mönch Volmar
- Hannah Herzsprung as Richardis von Stade
- Devid Striesow as Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossa
- Sunnyi Melles as Markgräfin von Stade
- Lena Stolze as Schwester Jutta
- Paula Kalenberg as Schwester Klara
- Annemarie Düringer as Äbtissin Tengwich
- Katinka Auberger as Nonne Bertha
- Joseph von Westphalen as Bernhard von Clairvaux
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Vision is shot through with issues of power - personal, political, spiritual. Which makes it a terrifically resonant work.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Fresh
Barbara Sukowa brings her veteran presence to the role, and nicely fuses its dual nature, holy instrument and holy terror, the passive vessel of a higher power and the active force of the good mother.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Although this true story offers numerous opportunities for skepticism and irony, director Margarethe von Trotta accords Hildegard the respect of a proto-feminist forebear and frames her in golden light like a Vermeer painting.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rotten
It's hard to muster more than curious indifference to Margarethe von Trotta's "Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen."
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
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