Simply A Masterpiece

i must have seen a different film!!

From my favorite movies..

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

God lives in an apartment in Belgium with his wife and his 10-year-old daughter Ea. God spends most of his time in ruining people's life by making weird rules. His daughter has also power and she wants to create a brand new testament. Ea sneaks inside Gods locked office and sends text messages to everyone in the world informing their scheduled dates of death. It's a film that has full of imagination and also has a dark comedy side. The concept of the movie was catchy and visually it's a wonderful film. Van Dormael does not lack the skill to pull of beautiful moments from this fantasy movie. Cinematographer, Christophe Beaucarne captures the craziness of God character superbly. Overall, I highly recommend this film to anyone who likes fantasy movies.

God is alive and is a self obsessed bully living a slob existence in modern day Brussels. Now if that floats your boat then this may be for you. His daughter is tired of his nasty ways and decides to escape the prison her home has become and write a brand New Testament – but she will need some help.Now this started off being a bit dumbed down and then it got better in that it brought in some interesting ideas that could be seen as ecumenical or even existential and sets them in a quasi comic role. It also is bound to upset certain religious types in its depiction of one, white, male god who is clearly a Christian. Under the skin of this film though I felt that the real message was one of love being the strength of the human spirit and that is what pulled it back for me. There are some good performances but most of the comedy was of the schadenfreude ilk, and this should in no way be compared to 'The Life of Bryan' in case this has any seeming parallels. It is in French with good to OK sub titles, so if you fancy a light heated poke at deities then this may be for you

Jaco Van Dormael is a special director : only four movies within 25 years, all good and all original. This one is a comedy and it's very funny despite many dark moments. The force of this movie comes from the possibility of multiple readings. Many other movies don't succeed to represent god in comedy (Let there be light, Bruce almighty., two of a kind, Clah of Titans...). The repetitive narrative structure is the only - minor - weakness but it's so important because each six segment has it own specificity. The casting is excellent specially Benoit Poelvorde as God and Yollande Moreau as his wife (a silent role). Despite all this, the film was a failure at the box-office everywhere.

... is as good a way as any to summarize this bizarre Belgian entry. It's from the same stable as Le Huitieme jour, which I enjoyed. Whilst the eighth day was more or less straightforward however the brand new testament is completely off the wall. The basic premise is that God is alive and well and living in Brussels and if it had been funded by the Brexit factor it couldn't have done a better job of encouraging England to get the hell out of Europe come the referendum. For reasons best known to himself God is a triple-distilled son of a bitch who takes a perverse delight in making people miserable. Mrs. God - the superb Yolande Moreau who is allotted far too little screen time - is a great hand at collecting baseball cards and is convinced that what the word needs now is 18 (two baseball teams) Apostles rather than the twelve with which our Lord made do so when God's daughter hacks into his computer the first thing she does is to appoint another six. And there you have it. This is one of those all-or-nothing movies, if you like it you'll love it, if you don't like it you'll loathe it. The choice is yours.