Jésus de Montréal (1989)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 118 minuten
Country:
Canada / France
Directed by: Denys Arcand
Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening and Johanne-Marie Tremblay
IMDb score:
7,5 (7.860)
Releasedate: 17 May 1989
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Jésus de Montréal plot
For a troupe of actors who want to stage their own interpretation of a passion play in Montreal, their own lives and the characters they play intertwine due to the growing opposition they face from the Catholic Church there.
Actors and actresses
Daniel Coulombe
Mireille
Constance
Martin
René
Fr. Leclerc
Richard Cardinal
Pascal Berger
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Reviews & comments
J. Clouseau
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- 978 messages
- 1084 votes
Seen in religion. So I didn't expect anything from it at all, but it turned out really well in the end.
I had feared that this one would be a lot heavier, but in the end this film contains a surprising amount of humor. That made the tone a lot lighter. That woman who kept crying, that couple who came up with all kinds of bizarre theories, that scene in which the actors interpret their lines in every possible way and that guy who recorded porn films were remarkably funny and light-hearted. I did not expect at all from such a religious film.
The actors play well and the music is very nice (that bit of guitar that kept coming back was beautiful! Does anyone happen to know what it's called?). The passion play was also beautifully portrayed, unfortunately those scenes lasted just a little too long.
I just thought we had had it after a while. All that symbolism, those scenes that refer to the Bible (Jesus expelling the merchants from the temple and the scene with the audition for the commercial, Jesus showing the blind man again and the retinal transplant at the end...), .. Also the last scenes in which the actor completely goes crazy could hardly interest me. A surprisingly pleasant film, only a pity that it becomes a bit too symbolic and too drastic towards the end.
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MauriceMankes
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- 218 messages
- 213 votes
an almost drab thing; actor who is commissioned to actualize the passion story; and then a story unfolds that largely manages to avoid the religious clichés and at the same time puts the well-known story in a new light. Class
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Difficult. A film that certainly captivated me the first hour when asked to give a new look to the old play about the life of Jesus. Very finely worked out with some humor and a quirky view. Symbolic and with many references to the Bible. It held me pretty well, but not to the end.
As the film progressed, he came across as rather run-on, even theatrically at times. Still, I found the premise quite interesting. The composition of the group that resembles the apostles and/or the believers of Jesus' time. The most important part of any group is their trust in the leader they follow and serve. They see and believe in it so much that they can't leave. In this way, Daniel is very much like Christ because of his undying passion for his work and those he cares about.
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