Revelations of Divine Love

South Philly Autonomous Cinema presents Revelations of Divine Love at the Philadelphia Ethical Society Auditorium

Sunday, June 14th at 7:00 PM followed by a talkback with director Caroline Golum.

We are delighted to present the Philadelphia premiere of Caroline Golum's Revelations of Divine Love, a feature film about the life of 14th-century mystic Julian of Norwich. 

An irreverent biopic vividly realized through fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets with an ever-topical feminist approach, Revelations of Divine Love is inspired by and adapted from the memoir of 14th-century mystic and philosopher Julian of Norwich and an account of religious ecstasy, plague, and revolt considered to be the first book to be authored by a woman in English.

The film envisions the life of Julian in the lead up to her anchorage—through her illness and the onset of her godly visions—and follows her through the years as she indulges in her desire to write and becomes a revered and holy figure to those in her town and beyond the city walls.

"Golum’s film is many things: a dramatization of the life of the fourteenth-century anchoress and mystic Julian of Norwich; a catalog of her holy visions; a plague story; a rebellion story; an expression of the persistent supremacy of love in a world of nearly unbearable suffering. It is both period-accurate and pointedly anachronistic, carefully handmade and plainly artificial. It is totally remarkable, and then some." — Robert Rubsam, The Baffler

"Halfway between the theater and the cinema is a rich no-man’s land in which the former is liberated from its fixity and the latter abandons its seductive verisimilitude. Revelations of Divine Love occupies that uncanny lacuna. Like Julian of Norwich, the film wrestles with the infinite while believing some better world will come." — Patrick Dahl, Screen Slate

The building has several steps at the entrance. If you will need the wheelchair entrance, please let us know at the time of ticket purchase.