
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.... (Full plot summary below)
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In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
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| Times (UK)Wendy IdeA film featuring the kind of compelling, textured female character that most serious Hollywood actresses would trade at least a decade's worth of Botox to get their claws into. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThis film is both good and powerful. It saves the God debate, still intact, for another round. It is as magically, richly ambivalent as life itself. |
| Total FilmPhilip KempHausner subtly sketches in the characters involved -- the pilgrims, the carers, the bemused but conscientious resident priest -- and the tensions and jealousies that thrive in Lourdes' hothouse atmosphere, without ever showing her hand. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Sukhdev SandhuAt the heart of the film is Sylvie Testud, one of the most beguiling actresses in the world, and whom I would happily pay to watch do nothing more than sleep for 24 hours. |
| Film Comment MagazineNicolas Rapold[Jessica Hausner's] thought experiment is an emotionally potent one. |
| QuickflixSimon MiraudoMovies about miracles range from the awful to the unwatchable... that all changes with Jessica Hausner's Lourdes; it's a visually-striking, beautifully-realised, emotionally-devastating drama that both salutes and skewers the deeply-religious. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferVisually rich, provocative and engrossing with a quietly tender, radiant performance by the reliable-as-always Sylvie Testud. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawHausner manages and controls our expectations in this superbly subtle, mysterious and brilliantly composed film. |
| Seattle TimesJeff ShannonIn a film rich with provocative questions, Hausner audaciously examines the ambivalent nature of miracles. Are they gifts from a loving God or random occurrences, bereft of any moral or meaning? |
| Lessons of DarknessNick Schager[An] aesthetically and tonally controlled knockout. |