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Life of Jesus

Reviewed by Caren Weiner Campbell | Apr 30, 1999

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Details Rated: Unrated; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: David Douche

In Life of Jesus twenty-year-old epileptic Freddy (Douche) and buddies spend their free time zooming around on motorbikes; from time to time Freddy and his girlfriend, Marie (Cottreel), get together and have sex. Their lives sputter along — dreary, monotonous, oddly hopeful — until an Arab boy (Kader Chaatouf) makes a move on Marie, igniting racism, resentment, and destruction. Novice French writer-director Bruno Dumont raked in film-fest accolades for this oblique, Euro-bleak tale that's as far from Hollywood in spirit as it is in location B

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Originally posted Apr 30, 1999 Published in issue #483 Apr 30, 1999 Order article reprints

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