👍GREAT MOVIE
1989 · 18 · 1h 58minDrama · Foreign Language
English title Jesus of Montreal
Director Denys Arcand
Stars Lothaire Bluteau · Catherine Wilkening · Johanne-Marie Tremblay · Rémy Girard · Robert Lepage · Gilles Pelletier · Roy Dupuis · Yves Jacques · Cédric Noël
Written by Denys Arcand
Music by Yves Laferriere
Countries of origin Canada · France
Language(s) spoken French · English · Italian
Sound Mix Dolby Stereo Colour Colour Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Budget $4.2 million Box office C$3 million (Canada)
A group of actors put on an unorthodox but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.
Novel.
"It's an original and uncompromising attempt to explore what really might happen, if the spirit of Jesus were to walk among us in these timid and materialistic times."
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times