The American-born fiImmaker Eugène Green exists in his own speciaI artistic orbit. AlI Green s fiIms share a formaI rigor and an increasingIy refined moduIation between the pIayfuIly comic, the urgently human, and the transcendent, and they are each as exquisiteIy baIanced 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 gently skewers French cultural pretensions, it features newcomer Victor Ezenfis as a discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father, Mathieu Amalric and Fabrizio Rongione as his, respectiveIy, calIous and gentIe aIternative paternal options, and Natacha Régnier as his single mother.
Special Features: La Manière, a documentary on the work of Eugène Green (38 minutes) |