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Jésus de Montréal (Jesus of Montreal)

Jésus de Montréal (Jesus of Montreal) (1989)

  • 79% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 85% of users liked it
    (5,292 ratings)

A modern-day Passion Play becomes a reenactment of the life and death of Jesus Christ in more ways than one with this critically acclaimed drama from Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand. Lothaire Bluteau stars as Daniel Coloumbe, an intense young actor in Montreal who is hired by church fathers to restage… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Denys Arcand
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
May 17, 1989 Wide
Orion Classics

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Denys Arcand made this original movie, in which life imitates art, at the peak of his career, right after Decline of the American Empire.

  • James Plath, Movie Metropolis

    An art-house version of the Passion--a story-within-a-story so powerful that it can't be contained within the performance.

  • Jake Euker, Filmcritic.com

    Bluteau has taken his Daniel too seriously, Daniel has taken his Jesus too seriously, and Arcand’s resolute detachment brings the whole conception down.

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    Inventive, witty, illuminating: about a contemporary staging of the Passion play, the institutional church's reverence for the status quo, & the false gods of secularism.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John B


    My very first of a lot of things. My first indie. My first foray into Quebecois film. My first look at a Denys Arcand film..and the first time seeing the multitalented Robert Lepage. There is not surprise that many of the alumni of this production went on to succesful careers. It is a… More

  • Dannielle A


    The movie has some good points: that consumerism, materialism, are hedonism are empty lifestyles. Pop culture... (wealth, sex, the media) is worshipped like a god. The major problem with this movie is the portrayal of Christ. He is the Son of God... the Savior of the world. He was… More

  • Joey N


    I liked the first half of this, but by the end it was just too much, and getting too obvious. The clever, calling-of-the-disciples allusion is my favorite, and the play itself is rather absorbing.

  • Anthony V


    Underrated film. Great allegory.

  • Linda K


    Arcand's depiction on religion and Montreal itself have somewhat not change until now (almost 20 years later). The film opens on a lot of subjects that still not resolved yet which gives the viewers a great opinion on a part of Montrealers ways of living.

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