Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Opens Sunday at the Michigan Theater Review by Jeff Meyers of the Metro Times Grade: C+

As far as résumés go, Hildegard of Bingen was definitely an overachiever. She composed music, was a mystic, and wrote poetry, plays and books on philosophy, medicine and human reproduction. And she happened to do all this in the 12th century while serving as a Benedictine nun. Actually, she was the abbess. Which makes Hildegard a pioneering feminist in filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta's eyes. Fair enough. The extraordinary nun is clearly ripe for a biopic, a renaissance woman long before there ever was a Renaissance.

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