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Jesus of Montreal (1989)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:11
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: When attendance at a church's annual Passion Play flags, a troupe of young actors is hired to stage a newer interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. While their newer, more modern version brings... When attendance at a church's annual Passion Play flags, a troupe of young actors is hired to stage a newer interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. While their newer, more modern version brings the house down, it also brings down the condemnation of church hierarchy, creating a strange parallel between the actors--now persecuted believers--and the authorities. But the actor, who is beginning to feel at peace with the character he plays (Christ), insists that the show will go on... no matter what happens to him in the process. [More]
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, Gilles Pelletier, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Catherine Wilkening
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, Gilles Pelletier, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Catherine Wilkening, Robert LePage, Remy Girard, Yves Jacques
Director: Denys Arcand
Director: Denys Arcand
Screenwriter: Denys Arcand
Producer: Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron
Composer: Yves LaFerriere
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Reviews for Jesus of Montreal
Bluteau has taken his Daniel too seriously, Daniel has taken his Jesus too seriously, and Arcand’s resolute detachment brings the whole conception down.
Inventive, witty, illuminating: about a contemporary staging of the Passion play, the institutional church's reverence for the status quo, & the false gods of secularism.
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