The Brand New Testament
God Exists. He Lives in Brussels with his teenage daughter.
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 7, 2017
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: Music Box Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Benoît Poelvoorde, François Damiens, Yolande Moreau & Catherine Deneuve | |
Directed by | Jaco Van Dormael | |
Edited by | Hervé de Luze | |
Composition by | An Pierlé | |
Director of Photography: | Christophe Beaucarne |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] clever exercise in gently heretical whimsy....[The film] puts across its mock-spiritual conceit with such quick-witted ingenuity and disarming good humor that believing it is surprisingly easy.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
It's just as silly as it sounds, but it's also a joyous celebration of heresy from a country that deserves a good laugh.
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Financial Times
Rating: 2/5 --
This saccharine religious comedy from Belgium's Jaco Van Dormael fails to live up to its initial promise.
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Little White Lies
An irreverent but otherwise harmless ontological satire that puts a cartoonish spin on the Christian origin story.
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Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
Weird, wonderful, and with plenty of soul, The Brand New Testament shows that a simple idea - and a little chutzpah - can go a very long way.
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One Room With A View
[A] surreal comedy whose endless visual imagination matches its conceptual wit.
New York Times
It takes a wildly clever setup and fails utterly to deliver on its own premise; and does so in a visual language lifted wholesale from other, better films.
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Product Description:
This comic fantasy imagines that God is actually a grumpy man living in Brussels (Benoît Poelvoorde) with his wife and ten-year-old daughter Ea (Pili Groyne). When Ea gets fed up with her dad's cruel ways, she decides to leak a file from his computer that says when everyone on Earth is scheduled to die. At the same time, she searches for six apostles of her own in order to help humanity. Directed by Jaco van Dormael.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 55,832
- UPC: 751778950836
- Shipping Weight: 0.21/lbs (approx)
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