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  • Not Rated
  • Fox Lorber
  • 1 h 36 m
  • Not Rated
  • Fox Lorber
  • 1 h 36 m
The Life of Jesus

Summary A social movie about current life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arab immigrants. Freddy is in love with Marie, a cashier at a local supermarket. When she is proposed to by Kader, a young Ara...

Directed By: Bruno Dumont

Written By: Bruno Dumont

  • Not Rated
  • Fox Lorber
  • 1 h 36 m
  • Not Rated
  • Fox Lorber
  • 1 h 36 m

The Life of Jesus

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
74
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Summary A social movie about current life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arab immigrants. Freddy is in love with Marie, a cashier at a local supermarket. When she is proposed to by Kader, a young Ara...

Directed By: Bruno Dumont

Written By: Bruno Dumont

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
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100
It’s only when you’re in the grip of the climax that you realize how richly the filmmaker has painted a landscape that to other eyes might appear so parched.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
80
No, this isn't another tale about the son of the Almighty, but a perceptive, naturalistic study of disenchanted French youth, which effectively conveys the tedium and frustration of small-town life.
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80
Making use of locals instead of professional actors lends authenticity to this impressive look at a group of otherwise innocuous teenage lads in a boring northern French town (Bailleul in Flanders), driven to violence by a mixture of boredom, jealousy, macho pride and ingrained racism.
By Geoff Andrew FULL REVIEW
75
It is described as about a guy who came back to life, and clearly one of Dumont's aims in The Life of Jesus is to express a spirit of charity for flawed humanity amid the rhythms of ordinary life.
By Bob Graham FULL REVIEW
70
An uncompromising portrait of thwarted emotions and small-town tedium, The Life of Jesus is a luminous and disconcerting feature debut from scripter-helmer Bruno Dumont. Pic’s deliberate pace, as it details the actions of adolescents with stifled inner lives, poses a commercial obstacle in markets unfriendly to leisurely fare, but film holds definite rewards for patient viewers and fest auds.
By Lisa Nesselson FULL REVIEW
60
Harsh and unsparing, Dumont's all-too-believable film charts with breath taking precision the distance between the unencumbered beauty of moving through space and the agony of inexorably falling to earth.
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60
I wanted to show how the underlying racism of society can transform a banal love story into a tragedy, Mr. Dumont has said. His film, for all its characters' uncommunicativeness, is too flat and unswerving to convey that idea surprisingly. But it does bring haunting power to the bitter, tongue-tied helplessness that sets its tragedy in motion.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 3B Productions, Norfilm, C.R.R.A.V, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ministère de la Culture de la Republique Française, Canal+, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pictanovo
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://3b-productions.com/catalogue/la-vie-de-jesus/
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Awards

Alexandria International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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