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Jesus of Montreal

Jésus de Montréal

1989

Denys Arcand

Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard ...

6.9

740

Drama A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It's an original and uncompromising attempt to explore what really might happen, if the spirit of Jesus were to walk among us in these timid and materialistic times (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Rob Mackie The Guardian	"Thought-provoking and wickedly funny (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"Arcand's ideas suffer as much from isolation as the culture he pokes fun at; they seem oddly out of date (...) Still, Daniel's martyrdom and eventual resurrection are inspired"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A sharply perceptive satire of modern Christianity"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Since they haven’t yet devised an Oscar for this category, let me nominate Canada’s Denys Arcand for the most obnoxious filmmaker in the world today"
		Caryn James The New York Times	"Even a Christ figure needs more of an interior life than Mr. Arcand gives Daniel. 'Jesus of Montreal' is finally not radical enough."

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