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  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Breaking Glass Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Breaking Glass Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Eighteen-year-old Jesús is trapped in a dead-end cycle of drugs, sex, apathy, and an obsession with violence. Living in a small flat with his widower father, Hector, where the TV covers up their inability to communicate, is not helping matters. After his band loses a competition, he and his friends get drunk and head out, looking for a t...

Directed By: Fernando Guzzoni

Written By: Fernando Guzzoni

  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Breaking Glass Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2017
  • Unrated
  • Breaking Glass Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Jesús

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Eighteen-year-old Jesús is trapped in a dead-end cycle of drugs, sex, apathy, and an obsession with violence. Living in a small flat with his widower father, Hector, where the TV covers up their inability to communicate, is not helping matters. After his band loses a competition, he and his friends get drunk and head out, looking for a t...

Directed By: Fernando Guzzoni

Written By: Fernando Guzzoni

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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90
Aug 30, 2017
Jesús investigates the darkest side of adolescence, raising a number of moral questions without providing easy answers. The top-notch cast is the icing on the cake, with Goic stoically embodying Chile’s hopes and failures while young Durán mesmerizes with his stunning androgyny.
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Aug 30, 2017
Jesús proves a gripping cautionary tale unafraid to let its characters suffer for justice. A son’s mistake becomes a father’s failure and no matter what happens, no one’s soul is left whole.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 31, 2017
The tense final act...investigates its moral quandaries with a rigor this kind of bad-seed street-teen movie usually can’t manage.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 7, 2017
Guzzoni’s movie is an unsparing portrait of aimlessness told mostly in the queasiest shades.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 30, 2017
Often shown in dark, flat and agitated closeups, Goic and Duran are both compelling performers.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW
63
Aug 27, 2017
Fernando Guzzoni's Jesus is at its best when it steers clear of pat moralizing and simply yokes its moody sense of atmosphere to the aimlessness of the story’s young characters.
By Derek Smith FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 31, 2017
One feels the filmmaker trying hard to work out the inner struggles of his sad but largely unsympathetic characters. But his movie is as miserable and ultimately confounding as it is earnest.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Burning Blue, Graal Films, JBA Production, Quijote Films, unafilm
Release Date Sep 1, 2017
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline One Betrayal is Enough
Website http://unafilm.de/jesus.html
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Awards

Torino Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Mar del Plata Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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