Cline, a theology student, takes the name of Hadewijch, a 13th century mystic from Brabant, as her name for her novitiate. But shocked by the blind, ecstatic faith of Hadewijch, the mother superior tells her she must leave the convent and find her vocation in the world.Hadewijch once again becomes Cline, 20, the daughter of a French minister. She meets Yassine, a North African from the banlieues, who introduces her to his brother Nassir, a committed Muslim and religious instructor. Her passionate love of God and her despair at God's invisibility, her rage, and her... desire for self-sacrifice lead her, between grace and madness, off along dangerous paths. [show more]
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Bruno Dumont directs this French drama starring Julie Sokolowski as a young Christian fanatic who falls in with a group of Muslim fundamentalists. The daughter of a wealthy politician, Celine (Sokolowski) identifies with the 13th-century mystic Hadewijch so strongly that she even takes on her name, and is eventually sent away from her Paris convent for being too extreme in her devotion. Outside the convent, she begins naively to explore the real world, and struggles to find a way to reconcile her longing for Christ with her need for physical love.
The strength of one woman's faith takes her to strange and dangerous places in this drama from acclaimed French filmmaker Bruno Dumont. Celine (Julie Sokolowski), the daughter of a wealthy and respected family, is a 20-year-old student of theology whose passion for Christianity is so strong some find it unnerving. Celine has been studying at a convent, but her single-minded devotion leads the mother superior to ask Celine to leave and go out into the world. As Celine strives to find herself in a world that seems to have lost its moral compass, she meets Yassine (Yassine Salime), a Muslim teenager who lives in the city. Yassine is quite taken with Celine and they strike up a friendship, but while she warily hangs out with his friends and goes to nightclubs with him, she stubbornly denies him physical affection, insisting her spiritual path is more important to her than sex. Yassine introduces Celine to his brother Nassir (Karl Sarafidis), a firmly committed Muslim, and in him Celine finds a kindred spirit -- despite the differences in their faiths, their belief is equally powerful, and they share the opinion that they live in a world that has cut itself off from God. When Nassir makes a pilgrimage to the Middle East, Celine joins him, leading her into a strange maze of violence and fear.
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