THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
[LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT]
by Jaco Van Dormael
Belgium/France/Luxembourg 2015 116 min. French original version with German subtitles
sun 15 nov 7:30 pm Caligari FilmBühne
Script: Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van Dormael, DoP: Christophe Beaucarne, Editor: Hervé De Luze, Production: Terra Incognita Films, Après Le Deluge, Climax Films, Caviar Antwerp, Juliette Films, Producers: Olivier Rausin, Daniel Marquet, Cast: Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, François Damiens, Laura Verlinden
God exists! He lives in Brussels. He’s a real bastard, odious with his wife and daughter. We know a lot about his son, but very little about his daughter. Her name is Ea and she’s ten years old. One day, she revolts against her father, hacks his computer, leaks to the entire world their inevitable date of death by SMS – and decides that it’s time for six new apostles (one of them: Catherine Deneuve!).
"THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT is then a modern, magical, dreamy and rollicking fairy tale for adults – possessing an inalienable zeitgeist quality." (www.twitchfilm.com)
Biography: Jaco Van Dormael, born in Ixelles/Belgium in 1957, studied in the 1970s in Paris and at the INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle) in Brussels. He started his career with varios doumentary and short films, among them È PERICOLOSO SPORGERSI which won the Grand Prize at the film festival in Clermont-Ferrand/France.
Filmography (selection): 1985 È PERICOLOSO SPORGERSI (short film), 1990 TOTO DER HELD, 1996 DER ACHTE TAG, 2010 MR. NOBODY, 2014 DER KLEINE NICK MACHT FERIEN, 2015 DAS BRANDNEUE TESTAMENT
Awards (selection): Audience Award and Theatre Owners’ Prize for the "Most Enjoyable Film" (Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund/Norway 2015), Award for Best Film in the category "Comedy Features" (Austin Fantastic Fest, USA 2015)
