The Brand New Testament (2015)

THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT  (2015)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Jaco Van Dormael
    Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Marco Lorenzini,
    Catherine Deneuve, Yolande Moreau, Francois Damiens,
    Laura Verlinden, Serge Larivière, Didier De Neck,
    David Murgia, Anna Tenta, Dominique Abel
Maybe there's something in the beer they brew in Belgium, but whatever it is, some of the most inventive comedies of the early 21st century have come from there. This one imagines that God, who in Genesis created Brussels before He did anything else, is a sadistic bastard who makes life miserable for human beings because He feels like it and because He can. He has a wife who's mute and a rebellious young daughter named Ea, who's just about had it with the Old Man's abusive behavior. So with a little help and encouragement from her brother J.C. (yes, that J.C.), Ea slips into her Dad's computer room and before shutting the system down, sends out text messages informing every person on earth of the exact time of their death. Then she escapes through a washing machine into a real world she's never experienced before and starts looking around for a few new disciples. If you think this doesn't get even crazier, try to think of another movie in which Catherine Deneuve ends up in bed with a gorilla. There's something to think about and plenty to laugh about, along with a heroine who's a lot like "Amelie", except that she can multiply ham sandwiches and walk on water. And if the Big Guy Himself were to end up on an assembly line in Uzbekistan, manufacturing washing machines and trying without any luck to get back home, well, maybe that's exactly what He deserves.