Metacritic Film

Jesus, You Know

Starring Angelika Weber, Elfriede Ahmad, Waltraute Bartel, Hans-Jürgen Eder, and Thomas Ullram

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Leisure Time Features
Documentary  |  Foreign
87 minutes | Color
Austria
Released In Theaters December 3, 2004

This documentary examines Catholics at prayer and the role of religion in modern life.

WRITTEN BY
Veronika Franz
Ulrich Seidl

DIRECTED BY
Ulrich Seidl

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

67 / 100

Critic Reviews

75 New York Post
Inventive and bold, Jesus, You Know will especially resonate with people, like this critic, whose strict Catholic upbringing (some might call it brainwashing) inalterably shaped their lives.
70 TV Guide
If watching devout churchgoers pray to Jesus before a static camera sounds like the dullest idea ever for a documentary, think again: This might be the most fun you've ever had in church.
70 Chicago Reader
Engrossing documentary.
70 Village Voice Ed Halter
Complex and deeply moving documentary.
70 The New York Times Dana Stevens
Tells the truth where it counts most: in its unblinking exploration of one of the most private of human experiences.
63 Boston Globe
Whatever blend of fact and fiction is really at work in this latest offering from ''Dog Days" director Ulrich Seidl -- known, by the way, for playing fast and loose with the documentary format -- the irony-laced ''Jesus, You Know" does persuade viewers to sit up and take notice of its inspired conceit.
60 Variety Leslie Felperin
Visually glorious and sometimes moving, but comes coated with a thick hoarfrost of irony.

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