post by mikeofdecrepitude at Jul 14,2009 10:24am edited Jul 14,2009 10:25am
Basso Profundo: Songs from Old Russia, as sung by the orthodox singers choir, is also good church music. Their voices get extremely low and ominous, grim stuff.
Basso Profundo: Songs from Old Russia, as sung by the orthodox singers choir, is also good church music. Their voices get extremely low and ominous, grim stuff.
The Coolidge is showing a film about her. It looks epic and dramatic and awesome!
“Ms. Sukowa’s passionate performance
brings this multi-faceted character to incandescent life.”
—The Wall Street Journal
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.
In VISION, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta (Marianne and Juliane, Rosa Luxemburg, Rosenstrasse) reunites with recurrent star Barbara Sukowa (Zentropa, Berlin Alexanderplatz) to bring the story of this extraordinary woman to life. In a staggering performance, Sukowa portrays von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Lushly shot in the original medieval cloisters of the fairytale-like German countryside, VISION is a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment.
