La Vie de Jésus (1997)

Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: La vie de Jésus

Writer/Director: Bruno Dumont

Cinematographer: Philippe Van Leeuw

Composer: Richard Cuvillier

Cast: David Douche, Marjorie Cottreel, Kader Chaatouf, Sébastien Delbaere, Samuel Boidin, Steve Smagghe, Sébastien Bailleul, Geneviève Cottreel

A bored, unemployed teenager afflicted with epilepsy, living in a small town in rural northern France, spends his days driving his motorbike around town with his friends and having sex with his girlfriend; but when a handsome Arab boy begins to show an interest her, tensions arise, in Dumont’s powerful debut, a thoroughly compelling and painfully authentic feeling anthropological study. Iain.Stott