The Brand New Testament
OT: Le Tout Nouveau Testament
Jaco Van Dormael // Belgium, France, Luxembourg, 2015
Fiction Feature // FF2015
Story
God exists. He lives in Brüssel and is a monster (Benoît Poelvoorde). He bullies his wife (Yolande Moreau) and his daughter (Pili Groyne) with his moodiness and bad-tempered outbursts. And he takes a sadistic pleasure in spoiling people’s days. In his control centre, he controls his bad deeds: a telephone that rings just when you’ve made yourself comfortable in the bath. Or it starts raining when you’ve left your brolly at home. When God’s in a bad mood – and that’s most of the time – then everybody should suffer too. That’s divine law. Ea, his 10-year old daughter, can’t stand it any longer. She secretly hacks her Dad’s PC, on which all human data is stored, and sends every inhabitant of Earth a note telling them their date of death. It doesn’t take long before chaos reigns. The Brand New Testament is a highly amusing film about a heavenly generational conflict – with a simply divine Catherine Deneuve as a female apostle.
Director
JACO VAN DORMAEL(*1957) was awarded the Caméra d‘Or for his debut film Toto le Héros (1991) in Cannes. Other films of his include Le Huitième Jour and Mr. Nobody. The Brand New Testament is his fourth feature. Despite the relatively small number of films, Van Dormael is one of Belgium's most important directors.Trailer
Info
Le Tout Nouveau Testament
Fiction Feature
French
Voilà!//FF2015
Belgium, France, Luxembourg
2015
113 min
OV with German and English subtitles
Jaco Van Dormael
Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van Dormael
Pili Groyne, Benoit Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Laura Verlinden, Didier De Neck, Serge Lariviere, Francois Damiens, Romain Gelin, Marco Lorenzi
Jaco Van Dormael, Olivier Rausin, Daniel Marquet
Christophe Beaucarne
Herve De Luze
An Pierle
Sylvie Olive
NFP marketing & distribution GmbH
Le Pacte
Terra Incognita Films; Climax Films; Apres Le Deluge
Clotilde Ligeard, Le Pacte: festivals@le-pacte.com