Whether you are a student of cinema studying the "New French Extremity" or a casual viewer curious about Dumont’s origins, this film is a heavy stone dropped into calm water. It ripples long after the credits roll.
. Their listless existence—marked by playing in a local marching band and raising songbirds—is upended when La Vie De Jesus Bruno Dumont 1997 DVDRIP
La Vie de Jésus ( The Life of Jesus ) is the debut feature film of French director Bruno Dumont. Released in 1997, it won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section. The film is a stark, naturalistic portrayal of aimless youth, racism, and existential despair in rural northern France. The version refers to a digital transfer from the standard-definition DVD release, which has become a reference point for the film’s pre-HD home video circulation. Whether you are a student of cinema studying
. Set in the drab, small town of Bailleul in French Flanders, the film offers a bleak and unblinking look at the aimless lives of unemployed youth. Los Angeles Times Plot Overview The story follows Their listless existence—marked by playing in a local
: The film gained notoriety for several sequences of unsimulated, hardcore sexual encounters (using body doubles), intended to show the characters' "stifled inner lives" in a clinical, non-sentimental light. La vie de Jésus: The Sky Above - The Criterion Collection