One of the great debut films of recent times Bruno Dumont's La vie de Jesus The presents life's brutality and exhilaration played out by turns within the quarters of a tiny Flemish country town. Here positioned in relative isolation from the rest of so-called cultural Europe the connections between individuals will take on a physical power inflected by boredom by desperation and by urges as raw as the earth. Freddy and Marie (played by David Douche and Marjorie Cottreel in astonishing performances) are..
