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  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 53 m

Summary Eugène Green drops biblical motifs – Abraham and Isaac, Mary and Joseph – into this genuinely contemporary setting as if it were the most natural thing in the world, augmenting them with nods to crime films, Italian Baroque music, a Doisneau photograph, three 17th century paintings and an artificial way of speaking that is anything but c...

Directed By: Eugène Green

Written By: Eugène Green

  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 53 m

The Son of Joseph

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Summary Eugène Green drops biblical motifs – Abraham and Isaac, Mary and Joseph – into this genuinely contemporary setting as if it were the most natural thing in the world, augmenting them with nods to crime films, Italian Baroque music, a Doisneau photograph, three 17th century paintings and an artificial way of speaking that is anything but c...

Directed By: Eugène Green

Written By: Eugène Green

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90
Mar 16, 2017
The Son of Joseph transforms from a lark into a revelation in its final scenes, which are piercing, absurd and pretty close to miraculous.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 12, 2017
The Son of Joseph can be trying in its whimsy, yet it builds to a lovely finale that evokes the Bible, the French Resistance and the surreal.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 9, 2017
No one behaves quite like a human being in Eugene Green’s Le Fils de Joseph, yet a soulful sense of humanity emerges from their heightened declamations anyway.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 13, 2017
Did I mention this movie is a comedy? It is, and a very sure-footed one, although the style does take some getting used to.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 6, 2016
The insistence of Green’s gaze throughout the film encourages us to look beyond the mechanisms of speech and behavior at the more uncanny movements of the conscience.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 9, 2017
Eugène Green’s (The Portuguese Nun) direction favours symmetry over emotion, while the impassive performance style recalls French auteur Robert Bresson. It lacks the profundity to fully merit that comparison, but earns its uplifting ending.
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Jan 12, 2017
I can’t deny that Eugène Green is a talented, idiosyncratic director and his Son of Joseph has many visual and intellectual qualities to boast about. But it’s a film I appreciated much more than I actually enjoyed.
By David James FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Coffee and Films, Les Films du Fleuve, Film Factory, TSF, En Haut des Marches, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Casa Kafka Pictures, Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius, Arte / Cofinova 12, VOO, BE TV
Release Date Jan 13, 2017
Duration 1 h 53 m
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Awards

Seville European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Prix Louis Delluc
• 1 Nomination

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