Jesus of Montreal (French language only) (Import)
What happens to the people putting on a Passion Play? Someday Mel Gibson may tell us, but Denys Arcand’s Jesus of Montreal proposes an engaging possibility. In hip present-day Montreal, a group of actors stages the Passion in an outdoor, somewhat avant-garde style, led by the quietly charismatic and increasingly uncanny young man (Lothaire Bluteau, Black Robe) playing Christ. His identification with the role, and the way it bleeds into real life, gives director Denys Arcand plenty of opportunities for social comment–some of it spot-on, some of it a small facile. But the fragile Bluteau is such a fascinating lead presence (the other actors are traditional from Arcand’s Barbarian Invasions and Decline of the American Empire) that the movie’s spell lasts long with it’s over. Turns out the French-Canadian approach to the Passion can be just as intriguing as the original Aramaic. –Robert Horton
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