La vie de Jésus (1997)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Bruno Dumont

Guionista:

Bruno Dumont (scenario)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

4 junio 1997 (France)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

A social movie about life nowadays in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed...

Plot Keywords:

Arab | Motorcycle | Seizure | Café | Male Nudity

Premios:

9 wins & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Ennui in Flanders

Reparto

David Douche	...	Freddy
Marjorie Cottreel	...	Marie
Kader Chaatouf	...	Kader
Sébastien Delbaere	...	Gégé
Samuel Boidin	...	Michou
Steve Smagghe	...	Robert
Sébastien Bailleul	...	Quinquin
Geneviève Cottreel	...	Freddy's mother (Yvette)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Suzanne Berteloot	...	Infirmière (as Suzanne Bertelot)
Jeanne	...	Freddy's mother (Double for nude scenes)
Sophie Ruckebusch	...	Majorette

También conocida como:

The Life of Jesus (USA)

Duración:

96 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés | Arabe

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Stereo

Clasificación:

Norway:15 | Singapore:R(A) | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bailleul, Nord, France

Compañía:

3B Productions

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "Kinomagazin: Das Schöne ist mein Dämon - Der Filmemacher Bruno Dumont" (2007)

Ennui in Flanders

There is enormous promise in the opening scenes of Bruno Dumont's first feature "La Vie de Jesus". He is clearly a director with a great feeling for landscape, that ability to draw the viewer into a self-contained world, in this case an agricultural area of Northern France. Within minutes we know what it is like to live in this small redbrick town bounded by seemingly endless lanes and fields where very little happens and even the local cafe is all but deserted on a weekday mid-afternoon. We share the stifling boredom of the group of unemployed youths with little do except joyride their mopeds. We are in a world akin to that of Bresson's "Au Hazard Balthazar" and "Mouchettte" with Dumont revealing his with the assured unflinching vision of the master himself. Already we are beginning to sense the thrill that comes with the intuition that we may be discovering a major new talent. A brilliantly observed scene where the group of friends visit the brother of one of them who is in a coma dying of AIDS seems to confirm this. Words cannot convey their feeling but expressions say everything. However after this doubts gradually creep in. It requires real genius to sustain viewer interest in a film about provincial ennui. Not that nothing happens. There is an attack on an Arab youth that results in manslaughter, an arrest and an escape. The problem is not a lack of psychological development. There is an inevitability about the main protagonist, Freddy's obsession with the only girl around and his gunning for the Arab as a result of sexual rivalry fuelled by group racism. Rather is the problem one of a lack of narrative development. One sequence of moped riding becomes just like any other as do all those scenes of young people just moping around. Unfortunately the film eventually evokes viewer tedium in a way that is self defeating. Nevertheless there is excitement in the discovery of a new directorial talent and the prediction that he could in time make a really outstanding film.