"Jesus of Montreal" refers to the Gospel according to St. Mark, advertising for eau de Cologne, the Brothers Karamazov, the dubbing of pornographic movies, the Big Bang, the formula for Coca-Cola Classic, Hamlet's soliloquy, the inconvenience of being born in Burkina-Faso, a Roman soldier by the name of Pantera, fascist who are daily communicants, organ transplants and Paul Newman's salad dressing. In short, it touches on everything unavoidable." Denys Arcand.
Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Rémy Girard, Robert Lepage, Gilles Pelletier, Johanne Marie Tremblay, Catherine Wilkening, Yves Jacques
It is sinful to compare the glory of God to corruptible man.
See, Romans 1, KJV. However, I do not see that here in
this movie, for rather than being a movie about Jesus, it is
a movie about an actor attempting to put on a Passion Play
(about the last few days of Jesus on the earth) and how he
and others approach the subject of religion and Christianity.
It is like watching children put on a school play during Christmas
time... I miss watching these kinds of movies at university.
johnnytoogood007 1 month ago
If everybody was a general, where would the soldiers be found?.. But he is an actor.
So, WWJD does make sense from a method actor's perspective. And so the comedy
begins, for as he attempts to "get into character" the same things that happened to
Jesus seem to happen to him. He gets into trouble with the law. And Irene Jacob's
character begins to come across as Mary Magdalene. It was funny waiting to see
how and when he would toss the moneychangers out of the temple, "in real life".
johnnytoogood007 1 month ago
Ignore the trailer. That is not what this movie is about. This movie is a
comedy about method actors attempting to put on a Passion Play, for various
reasons, aside from vanity and a need to pay bills. He is a method actor, and
so decides to attempt to get into character by practising the maxim WWJD...
And therein lies the comedy. For the movie shows the silliness of WWJD
compared to asking, What does Jesus command us to do.
johnnytoogood007 1 month ago
The Pergolesi music is worth all the movie tickets you'll ever buy.
SilentHiss1 1 year ago
This is an awesome movie!
chatefrancaise 2 years ago