La vie de Jésus / un film de Bruno Dumont ; scénario, Bruno Dumont ; producteurs délégués, Jean Bréhat et Rachid Bouchareb ; une coproduction 3B Productions - Norfilms - CRRAV avec la participation du Centre National de la Cinématographie, du Ministére de la Culture, et de Canal+.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Title and credits from screen. David Douche, Marjorie Cottreel, Kader Chaatouf, Sébastien Delbaere, Samuel Boidin, Steve Smagghe, Sébastien Bailleul, Geneviève Cottreel. Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Wide screen (2.35:1). Features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Bruno Dumont, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack; New interview with Dumont; Conversation between Dumont and critic Philippe Rouyer from 2014; Excerpts from two 1997 episodes of the French television program Le cercle de minuit; Trailer; New English subtitle translation; An essay by critic Nicholas Elliott.
Summary:
"With his stunning debut feature, the risk-taking auteur Bruno Dumont immediately established his reputation as an uncompromising iconoclast on the cutting edge of French cinema. Blending unflinching realism with moments of startling, light-filled beauty, La Vie de Jésus finds unexpected philosophical richness in the quotidian, small-town existence of Freddy (nonprofessional David Douche in a revelatory, one-off performance), an aimless young man with epilepsy who, in his childlike simplicity, embodies both great tenderness and terrifying brutality. Leaving the film's cryptic title tantalizingly open to interpretation, Dumont dares viewers to see the divine in a seemingly dead-end world"--Container.
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