Bruno Dumont-La Vie de Jésus (1997)

"Life of Jesus" follows the life of 20-year-old Freddy.When he is not at the hospital getting treatment for his epilepsy, Freddy spends his free time -and he has plenty of it- hanging out with his pals. The boys have had little schooling and are chronically unemployed. For entertainment, they race around town and through the French countryside on their motorbikes. Life changes for Freddy when Kader, the teenage son of an Arab family, enters the picture. Freddy and his friends are already threatened by Kader for being gainfully employed when none of them can find a job. When the fearless Kader stubbornly and aggressively pursues Marie, Freddy's girlfriend, Freddy and his pals take out their latent jealousy and anger in an astonishing way, which dramatically alters all of their lives. (-DVD cover)



A social movie about life nowadays in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They try to pass away the time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arabic immigrants. Freddy is in love with Marie, a cashier at a local supermarket. When she is proposed by Kader, an young Arab man, Freddy and his friends have an idea: they decide to punish Kader for what they call "such a provocation." After they have raped another girl, Marie finally commits to Kader, which seals his fate. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120448/plotsummary)



In La Vie de Jesus, unemployed, uneducated, and epileptic 20-year old Freddy (David Douche) lives with his mother Yvette (Genevieve Cottreel), a café owner. Douche gives a haunting performance as the sensitive but not very bright Freddy, his body scarred from repeated falls from his motorcycle and his face mirroring the fear of not knowing when his next epileptic seizure will come. Freddy has a girl friend, Marie (Marjorie Cottreel), who works as a cashier at the supermarket but their relationship lacks an emotional pull and their graphically depicted sex feels mechanical. Dumont does not judge his characters and they are fully three-dimensional, both guilty and innocent, displaying tenderness one minute and cruelty the next, searching for human connection. Freddy trains his finch to sing and takes the boy who just lost his brother to the beach to cheer him up, yet shortly afterwards he and his friends humiliate an overweight girl who plays in the band. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120448/usercomments)



Each scene of this film grabs you. You want to *see* what is happening. As in Dumont's other film "L'Humanite", he has an intuitive grasp of what the viewer wants to see, where the human eye would naturally want to look. He is also a sensitive observer who understands human behavior in all its richness. Even though the main characters of his films are lowlives who we would probably not have much in common with, we appreciate them as human beings. He never makes fun of or degrades his characters. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120448/usercomments)



I think there is a tremendous amount of development, but unlike a Hollywood film, he does not announce it with a surging musical score, a change in lighting, and other such cheap tricks. Instead, we observe a character moving beyond the grief of his brother's death when he bites off the knot of a mourning cloth he tied to his wrist. This is a great film by a great director. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120448/usercomments)



Excellent, slow-paced, but rewarding film about a dead-end 20-year old and his extremely boring life in a small French town. Freddy is a young layabout who hangs around with his friends, rides his motorbike, and has rough sex with his girlfriend Marie.
This is an original and unusual vision in service of a story told with great strength and care. Dumont clearly knows what he is doing and he isn't copying anybody else. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120448/usercomments)



By chronicling the stifling nature of small towns, director Dumont has fashioned a fully wrought, sharply attuned study of thwarted rmotions. The title of this film is something of a misnomer, because by all appearances, 20-year-old Jesus has no life. "While I was writing this story, I knew I was dealing with ambiguous characters and an unconventional plot. I knew it and I was compelled to continue. This is the very material of the film. I was reaching into the creases of human nature, the junctures... It's all about love and hate, and their power." (- Bruno Dumont)



About the director : Born in Bailleul (where this movie and his second feature "L'Humanite" take place), France in 1958. He studied philosophy and then taught for several years before switching to filmmaking. He directed industrial documentaries and promotional shorts. "Life of Jesus", his first feature, was awarded the Prix Jean Vigo in France. "L'Humanité" (1999) which won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes is the second feature film he wrote and directed.






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