Deep spirituality turns vague and hazy in religious films, like 3D for which only God has the glasses. But Margarethe von Trotta’s film about 12th-century nun and brilliant scholar Hildegard (Barbara Sukowa) reveals vivid, involving aspects of her brave, even feminist life, often sensual in a cloistered way. The Gothic architecture resonates with the German and Latin speech. (2010) — David Elliott
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