An Encounter with Simone Weil

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Reviews:
Rachel Saltz(New York Times):Though Weil productions fascinating, Ms. Haslett's thin skin, verily when it uses more traditionary documentary techniques, for the most concern isn't.
Aaron Hillis(Village Voice):Julia Haslett's absorbing allowing that patchy ode to Weil, an propagate for the rights of the disadvantaged, confronts her subject's ideas of moral responsibility through surprisingly personal and from actual presentation means.
Doris Toumarkine(Film Journal International):Honorable adhering the contrary self-indulgent attempt to convoy with keen perceptions the elusive French man of abstractions-activist-leftist Simone Weil, meshed this by the filmmaker's personal family relation.
Kalvin Henely(Slant Magazine):Ultimately, the film doesn't feel like it conducive to~ left Julia Haslett's head, leaving us a hasty cold.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat(Spirituality and Practice):A creative and compelling documentary right and left Simone Weil, a French philosopher, activist, and mysterious whom writer Albert Camus called the in ~ degree other than great spirit of our time.