Hadewijch
2009 · Movie · 105 min · ★ 6.4 · 78% critics
After being asked to leave a convent for taking her devotion too far, a young woman returns to her wealthy family life in Paris, feeling isolated and restless. Drawn to new friendships on the city’s margins, she searches for a way to live with faith in the real world and is pulled toward increasingly dangerous ideas about belief and action.
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Details
- Years
- 2009
- Release date
- 2009-11-25
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (66 votes)
About
You may like this if you’re drawn to quiet, challenging dramas about faith, alienation, and the pull of extremism, in the vein of Humanity or Our Children; Not for you if you want fast pacing, clear answers, or lighter themes.
Pros: haunting spiritual quest; intense moral questions; strong lead presence | Cons: very slow pacing; ambiguous story beats; emotionally unsettling themes
Cast & crew
Julie Sokolowski
as Céline vel Hadewijch
- YS
Yassine Salime
as Yassine Chikh
- KS
Karl Sarafidis
as Nassir Chikh
- DD
David Dewaele
as David
- BM
Brigitte Mayeux-Clerget
as La mère supérieure
- MA
Michelle Ardenne
as La prieure
- SL
Sabrina Lechêne
as La novice
- MC
Marie Castelain
as La mère de Céline
- LB
Luc-François Bouyssonie
as Le père de Céline
Directed by Bruno Dumont