Hadewijch: Press reviews

'Challenging, thought provoking and extraordinarily powerful.'

'Every shot in the movie is an exquisitely rendered tableau that conveys the mysteries of life as contemplated by Céline.'

'It is up to us to decide. Dumont has an unique ability to create enigmatic, contemporary parables that get under your skin.'

'A provocative look at contemporary religious martyrdom'

'A controversial exploration of different faiths. Newcomer Julie Sokolowski shows her mettle.'

'feels like a bad pastiche of Bresson and Genet'

'Dumont's exaltation of the face and all it contains of love and doubt has a near-transcendent power'

'Dumont's elliptical movie is as stiff as an over-starched wimple and rather tedious'

'Dumont suppresses any information that could bring any of his stick-figure characters to life; he seems to be offering lessons about fanaticism, wealth, power, poverty, and politics, but is merely drawing connections by numbers.'

'Céline's story feels maddeningly incomplete, and vague both in theological and psychological terms'

'The film never takes us in far enough.'

'you either go with Dumont's arrogant series of conundrums and paradoxes or – as I do – you see them as mere meaningless ‘effects' with little rhyme and no reason.'