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Film: Also Showing La Vie de Jesus (nc) Bruno Dumont n Cousin Bette (15) Des McAnuff n Babymother (15) Julian Henriques
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The Independent - London
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September 10, 1998
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THE UNBLINKING, blank-eyed coolness of Bruno Dumont's La Vie de
Jesus is mirrored in the inscrutable face of the film's main
character. Freddy (David Douche) is 20 years old, with a face like
a Yorkshire pudding of at least three times that age. He lives in
Bailleul, a town in northern France where a chip paper blowing along
the road counts as big news. His passions, if that face could ever
be said to express passion about anything, are his motorbike (which
he crashes at least once a day), his chaffinch (which he enters in
bizarre Sunday afternoon trilling contests), and his girlfriend Marie
(Marjorie Cottreel). Freddy and Marie don't do much: they walk up
and down the street, or make ...
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