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"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 philos...

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Corporate Author: Centre national de la cinématographie (France)
Other Authors: Dumont, Bruno, 1958- (Screenwriter), Douche, David (Actor), Cottreel, Marjorie (Actor), Chaatouf, Kader (Actor), Delbaere, Sébastien (Actor), Boidin, Samuel (Actor), Smagghe, Steve (Actor), Bailleul, Sébastien (Actor), Van Leeuw, Philippe (director of photography.), Cuvillier, Richard (composer (expression))
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:French
Language Notes:French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
Edition:Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 980.
Subjects:
Young men > France > Drama.
Epileptics > France > Drama.
Prejudices > France > Drama.
Violence > France > Drama.
Arabs > France > Drama.
Arabs.
Epileptics.
Prejudices.
Violence.
Young men.
France.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, French.
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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.
Item Description:Title and credits from screen.
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.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Format:Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio); LPCM stereo.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Philippe Van Leeuw ; editors, Guy Lecorne, Yves Deschamps, Pierre Choukroun ; music, Richard Cuvillier.
ISBN:9781681435985
1681435985