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Enjoyed "The Brand New Testament" - european film with french dialogue - English subtitles. It's a dark comedy, fantasy - god is a nasty grumpy old guy living with his family (except JC - but there's a statue & pic of the last supper!) in Brussels ... making rules on his computer to torment humankind .... eg when bread that has jam on it falls on the floor it will ALWAYS land jam side down - etc etc. There are many twists & turns to the plot - as god's daughter escapes & writes her own testament as an antidote the harm her father has created. Dear Eve is an interesting character who comes into her own eventually 
Has some very funny moments - at least to me! And lots of bizarre images & moments to reflect upon. If you take your Bible seriously & literally, you'll probably find this film very offensive - but there are many here who I think would enjoy it.
Has some very funny moments - at least to me! And lots of bizarre images & moments to reflect upon. If you take your Bible seriously & literally, you'll probably find this film very offensive - but there are many here who I think would enjoy it.
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Enjoyed "The Brand New Testament" - european film with french dialogue - English subtitles. It's a dark comedy, fantasy - god is a nasty grumpy old guy living with his family (except JC - but there's a statue & pic of the last supper!) in Brussels ... making rules on his computer to torment humankind .... eg when bread that has jam on it falls on the floor it will ALWAYS land jam side down - etc etc. There are many twists & turns to the plot - as god's daughter escapes & writes her own testament as an antidote the harm her father has created. Dear Eve is an interesting character who comes into her own eventually
Only in Europe could they get away with something like this. For all the Americans' boasting about free speech, religious themes remain largely off limits in Hollywood save for pious portrayals. Last Temptation of Christ was a bit of an exception I guess (though my atheist friend who went to the opening night with me pointed out how conventional it actually was in some regards), but it was (I note) based on a novel by a Greek leftist. Kevin Smith's Dogma (which had Alanis Morrissette as God) would be another, I guess.
What about the classic comedy "Oh, God!" With George Burns?
George Burns and John Denver. Yeah, I enjoyed it. It was good. Very superior to its sequels.
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Oh God! was funny but not especially sacrilegious compared to movies like the one I was responding to.
It was a little sacrilegious if one wants to nitpick - but overall I took from it a message I like - that God is still alive, that he still cares about us, that he still wants himself to be known.
Older, wiser and still in a great hole after that incident with mother nature that taught "heh" about diversity that is above (aL) and beyond (para leL) and Levity that mortals would swear they know ... as if!
This is sometimes known as the great BH we're in ... an obscure abstract you can't see while innuit!
I remember he drove a Caddy and smoked cigars. A little sacreligious. I agree.
Stand up comedians in the U.S. have done sacreligious routines about God. And there was Barton Fink. That was one really dark "comedy". Pretty freaky actually. And a more recent Cohen Bros. movie - based (very loosely) on concepts out of The Book of Job - name slips my mind.
And a more "serious" one that was seen as sacreligious by Catholics, especially - DaVinci Code.
In the States, they can do it. It'd be controversial but they could. WB are sacreligious in RL and they do their thing there despite the huge controversy (they were barred from doing it here). I don't think our Canadian sensibilities, or even laws, would allow us to. Hmm...There was a movie called Jesus of Montreal - I don't think I saw the whole thing. I do remember there was controversy over it.
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Not Hollywood. It was a Quebecois film shot in French by the great Denys Arcand whose sensibilities were more European than American.
Yeah, I knew it was Canadian. My train of thought above was that maybe Canadians would be even more reluctant to make a film which would be religiously controversial, or potentially offensive, than in the U.S. Then I remembered that film.
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English Canada, you may be right. The Quebecoise, as I said, tend to be a bit more European artistically. And it shows in the success the directors like Arcane, Villeneuve, and Dolan tend to have at the European festivals.
I should check out their work further.
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Villeneuve has actually gone Hollywood. Last year's sf movie The Arrival was his and he's currently directing the sequel to Bladerunner (with another Canadian, Ryan Gosling as one of the stars).
A hint ... do some research and digging on aga'theos ... it reaches right into Charles Dickens expectations of large order of ecclesia of alien information on emotions contesting data on thoughts that are beyond eM!
Tis all hidden in the myths of time ... mostly denied by physiologist that deny theo logist ... but pose as theologians that are aware of the (w)hole vast devoid of coos Moe logical nature ... that's definitely beyond points of gravitas.
It flows at night ... in and out of aspirations, etc.
Always recall this is iconic of something incarnate ... appearing as isn't ... thus wispy, perhaps even whispery ... and if not listening carefully could be mist as nothing but vespers ova dah wa'terres !
Some feel water is lesser power than stone ... until meeting the Zea 'na rant .. spouting Semite! Tis ambiguous presentation ... can cause a splash ... and following X perts as spurz th move you along ...
Tis all hidden in the myths of time ... mostly denied by physiologist that deny theo logist ... but pose as theologians that are aware of the (w)hole vast devoid of coos Moe logical nature ... that's definitely beyond points of gravitas.
It flows at night ... in and out of aspirations, etc.
Always recall this is iconic of something incarnate ... appearing as isn't ... thus wispy, perhaps even whispery ... and if not listening carefully could be mist as nothing but vespers ova dah wa'terres !
Some feel water is lesser power than stone ... until meeting the Zea 'na rant .. spouting Semite! Tis ambiguous presentation ... can cause a splash ... and following X perts as spurz th move you along ...
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Went to see "Ove" last night at our local film club. Swedish with sub-titles. Really lovely film, great character development and nice back and forth between history and today. Funny in spots, pretty weepy in others.
A customer at my work, with whom I sometimes discuss movies with, suggested this one to me. I'll have to see if it's playing at the local Cineplex.
Another movie I'm very much looking forward to seeing is The Case for Christ.