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17 February 2012
Winner of the International Film Critics Award at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, Bruno Dumont's art-house drama boasts a magnetically natural performance from newcomer Julie Sokolowski as a virginal, privileged theology student from Paris whose medieval-style fervour is sent in a whole new direction when she meets radical Muslim Nassir (Karl Sarafidis).
The script's central paradox - that dogmatic believers are the most adept at switching allegiance - is arresting. Towards the end, however, Celine's egomania gets a bit wearing. And the climax, involving an ex-convict, feels like a bad pastiche of Bresson and Genet. Get thee to a convent, Bruno. You're not ready for the real world.
Hadewijch
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