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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780778602231
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
ISBN: 0778602230
Label: Madacy Entertainment Group
Manufacturer: Madacy Entertainment Group
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Madacy Entertainment Group
Release Date: February 01, 2000
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 160776
Studio: Madacy Entertainment Group
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
In a dreary small town in the north of France, the local teenagers go around in circles. Twenty-year-old Freddy (David Douche) might be called a skinhead, but that suggests some passion or political direction, and Freddy has none. A mean-faced, rudely simple young man, Freddy is aimless and indifferent, and his relationship with his girlfriend Marie (Marjorie Cottreel) seems to be entirely about mechanical sex. Things turn violent when an Arab boy flirts with Marie, and Freddy explodes in vengeance. Life of Jesus director Bruno Dumont means to disturb, and he succeeds almost too well; the misery of this world, rendered in detached glimpses, is relentlessly bleak. Clearly influenced by the great French director Robert Bresson, Dumont does have a purpose, and the enigmatic title hints at it: if we can find a divine spark in the brutish Freddy, then charity can exist anywhere. Among the startling elements in this film are a few moments of unfaked sexual explicitness, reportedly achieved by use of body doubles. But for sheer shock value, sexual frankness pales next to the vacant, voided lives laid bare in this grim picture; that's the real obscenity. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Praise Jesus!
I've been one of a select few of Bruno Dumont lovers after the delirious "Twentynine Palms" but "Life Of Jesus" is a more subdued, more restrained but no less disturbing piece of work.
This film never starts sermonising or getting didactic, instead it allows the audience to draw its own conclusions without the usual sensationalism you'd expect from a film that deals with bigotry and intolerance in a small provincial community.
Rating:  - BEST EVER
I absolutely love reading and,watching movies, about the life of Christ and this is the best that I have seen.
Rating: - Why did you called it "life of Jesus", M. Dumont ?
The answer of Dumont is "keep searching, sir". Watch again the movie in 20 years, Scott, and you will may understand... Dumont is simply one of the greatest directors of our time. "Humanity" was the confirmation. And Cronenberg doesn't miss the point in Cannes...
Rating: - EXCELLENT!
This film is an awesome film. If anyone wants a good Christian film, pick this one up. The life of Jesus is just so unbelievable to humans today, but this particular video does a great betrayl of Christ.
The video is just so great that you'll have to see it for yourself.
Rating:  - All thumbs down
Neither the story nor the characters presented in Life of Jesus are very complicated. And no doubt that's intentional. But for me the simplicity seemed to feel as much like the results of a first-and-only-draft screenplay than anything else. The main character, Freddy, is a shallow, sullen, uninteresting sort of fellow. He and his friends dislike and harass an Arab teenager, initially for racist reasons, pure and simple, but then the Arab boy starts flirting with Freddy's girlfriend and conveniently ... Read More
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