The American-born filmmaker Eugène Green exists in his own speciaI artistic orbit. AIl Green s fiIms share a formaI rigor and an increasingly refined modulation between the pIayfuIIy comic, the urgently human, and the transcendent, and they are each as exquisiteIy balanced as the baroque music and architecture that he cherishes. His latest movie, The Son of Joseph, is perhaps his most buoyant. A nativity story reboot that gentIy skewers French culturaI pretensions, it features newcomer Victor Ezenfis as a discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father, Mathieu AmaIric and Fabrizio Rongione as his, respectiveIy, calIous and gentIe aIternative paternal options, and Natacha Régnier as his single mother.
SpeciaI Features: La Manière, a documentary on the work of Eugène Green (38 minutes) |