Completed - FRENCH - Black comedy, Comedy - 90 minutes
When Ea gets fed up with her overbearing father (who happens to be God), she decides to follow in her older brother's footsteps by leaving the house, gathering her own apostles, and writing her own testament.
Year of production : 2015 Director(s) : Jaco VAN DORMAEL Writer(s) : Jaco VAN DORMAEL, Thomas GUNZIG Cast : Benoit POELVOORDE, Catherine DENEUVE, Yolande MOREAU, François DAMIENS, Pili GROYNE Producer(s) : Daniel MARQUET (TERRA INCOGNITA FILMS), Olivier RAUSIN (CLIMAX FILMS), David GRUMBACH (BAC CINEMA)
Set in Jaco Van Dormael’s native Belgium, The Brand New Testament is a surreal comedyin which God is a real life character who lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is acoward, with pathetical morals and odious with his family.His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can’t stand being locked up in a small apartment inordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad, hacks his computerand leaks to the entire world their fatale date of death, causing everyone to suddenly haveto think about what to do with the days, months, years they have left to live…
Country(ies) : BELGIUM, FRANCE, LUXEMBOURG
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Sitges FF 2015 (Won : Best Actress)Haifa IFF 2015 (Won : Best International Film)Haugesund - Norwegian IFF 2015 (Won : Audience Award)EFA 2015 (Nomination : European comedy - Won : European Production Designer)Lumiere Awards 2016 (Nomination : Best French-Language Foreign Film)Gopo Awards 2016 (Nomination : Best European Film)Palm Spring Fest. 2016 (Nomination : Best Narrative Feature)Magritte Awards 2016 (Won : Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, Best Original Score)Golden Globes 2016 (Nomination : Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language)César Awards 2016 (Nomination : Best Foreign Film)