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"A group of actors putting on a interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church."
"The priest in charge of the Passion Play in the Montreal Basilica decides on an update to keep the interest of a modern audience. The new director, cast and lead gradually and inevitably find that the story of the life of Christ has a powerful impact on their own lives."
""A troupe of underemployed actors joins a charismatic young man to help a church update its annual passion play. Their rag-tag production becomes a lightning rod, attracting a city; full of hope, praise, temptation and condemnation"--Videodisc sleeve."
"Daniel, a young actor, is asked by a priest to gather around him a group of actors to revitalise the Passion Play, a traditional portrayal of the Crucifixion of Christ. When they come up with a witty and radical interpretation of the play, they attract an unorthodox audience and the ire of the Church. Daniel's refusal to compromise sees him heading towards modern martyrdom."@en
"Daniel Coulombe interpreta il Cristo di una sacra rappresentazione attualizzata, accolta con successo dal pubblico ma rifiutata dalle autorità ecclesiastiche. Poi si identifica con il Messia fino a imitarne i gesti pubblici e seguirne il percorso verso la tragica morte. (Mereghetti)."@it
"A group of young actors commissioned to stage a modern production of a Passion Play find themselves embroiled in controversy."
"Ce drame nous introduit dans une relecture contemporaine de l'évangile selon Saint-Marc et raconte le bouleversement dans la vie d'un jeune acteur interprétant la vie de Jésus. Sollicité par un religieux inquiet, une troupe de théâtre doit rénover la présentation d'un chemin de croix dramatique : recrutement de camarades, recherches historiques débouchant sur une révision de la vie et de la passion de Jésus. Malgré le succès du spectacle, les autorités religieuses en interdisent la représentation. Blessé gravement dans une émeute, l'acteur subira sa propre passion."
"Taken with the idea of staging the Passion, the most famous story in the world, and playing the part of Jesus, Daniel sets off in quest of actors who are willing to drop everything and follow him. In search for information to help him better define his subject, Daniel makes startling discoveries on the life of Christ, discoveries which hold a powerful fascination for him. The show is born on a hot and muggy summer night. Grandiose, provocative, disturbing, it is upsetting to its audience."
"Taken with the idea of staging the Passion, the most famous story in the world, and playing the part of Jesus, Daniel sets off in quest of actors who are willing to drop everything and follow him. In search for information to help him better define his subject, Daniel makes startling discoveries on the life of Christ, discoveries which hold a powerful fascination for him. The show is born on a hot and muggy summer night. Grandiose, provocative, disturbing, it is upsetting to its audience."@en
""For more than 40 years the Passion Play has been a success in the famous Montreal Basilica, but over the years it has become old-fashioned and the priest in charge decides a change is needed. Daniel, a young actor in Montreal, is asked to update the play. Recruiting a younger, more inventive cast, the show becomes a huge success, despite the lack of approval from his emplyer. However, gradually and inevitably, the actors find that the life of Christ has an extraordinary impact on their real-life existence..."--Back cover of container."
"Daniel, an out-of-work actor, is employed by the rector of the Montreal Basilica to update the dry and staid version of The Passion Play. Assembling a rag-tag group of misfit actors, Daniel casts himself as Jesus and sets out to re-interpret the famous play. Giving it more of a modern and literal feel, the clergy and the actors are not prepared for the power-keg of controversy they create. Church officials want to close the production, but the elite theatre critics exalt the performance. The debate draws record crowds by as the authorities try to shut it down mid-performance, they set off a catalytic chain of events that causes a mob to riot and worse... a martyr to be born."
"Drame constituant une relecture contemporaine de l'évangile selon Saint Marc et racontant le bouleversement dans la vie d'un jeune acteur appelé à jouer la vie de Jésus. Sollicité par un religieux inquiet, le comédien Daniel Coulombe doit rénover la présentation d'un chemin de croix dramatique : recrutement de camarades, recherches historiques débouchant sur une révision de la vie et de la passion de Jésus. Malgré le succès du spectacle, les autorités religieuses en interdisent la représentation. Blessé dans une émeute, l'acteur subira sa propre passion. Avec Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard, Robert Lepage, Gilles Pelletier, Yves Jacques."
"An actor named Daniel (Lothaire Blutheau) is hired to direct a summer passion play in a Montreal park. His unorthodox production is inspiring and successful but, according to some, blasphemous. The film becomes a kind of passion play itself when the small band of actors is hypocritically abandoned by its sponsors and Daniel is arrested for refusing to halt the production."
"A group of actors in Montreal presents a radical version of the Passion Play which creates controversy in the church and the community."
"A group of actors in Montreal presents a radical version of the Passion Play which creates controversy in the church and the community."@en
"Avec ce film, Denys Arcand ne veut pas prouver la supercherie de la divinité ou de la naissance du Christ. Il essaie plutôt de nous entretenir de la difficulté pour un jeune acteur de vivre décemment de son métier au Québec. Il nous parle de l'influence que peut avoir un rôle tragique sur la vie d'un acteur. Il nous invite à réfléchir sur la faune médiatique qui s'installe dans nos salons pour convertir la moindre conversation en show télévisé."
"Dans "Jésus de Montréal", il est question de l'évangile selon Saint-Marc, de la publicité des eaux de Cologne, des frères Karamazov, du doublage des films pornographiques, du Big Bang, de la formule du Coca-Cola Classique, du monologue d'Hamlet, de l'inconvénient d'être né au Burkina-Faso, d'un soldat romain appelé Pantera, des facistes qui communient tous les jours, des transplantations d'organes et de la vinaigrette de Paul Newman. Bref, de tout ce qui est "incontournable"!"
"A la demande de l'Archevéché de Montréal, Daniel accepte de monter un spectacle consacré au chemin de croix. Séduit par l'idée d'incarner Jésus, il part en quête de comédiens prêts à le suivre : c'est ainsi qu'il recrute Constance, Martin, Mireille et René, tous à la recherche de satisfactions professionnelles."
"When attendance at a churchś annual Passion Play flags, a troupe of young actors is hired to stage a newer interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. While their newer, more modern version brings the house down, it also brings down the condemnation of church hierarchy, creating a strange parallel between the actors - now persecuted believers - and the authorities. But the actor, who is beginning to feel at peace with the character he plays (Christ), insists that the show will go on... no matter what happens to him in the process."
"A group of young actors commissioned to stage a modern production of a Passion play find themselves embroiled in controversy."
"La jaquette indique : "Daniel, un jeune créateur, se voit confier une mise en scène de la Passion. Interprétant lui-même le rôle de Jésus, il s'entoure de comédiens sincères qui font de leur spectacle un succès. Mais les autorités religieuses interdisent les représentations. Daniel est alors amené à revivre la Passion du Christ, ce qui le conduit sur la croix, à la mort... et même à la résurrection ! ""
"When a group of unemployed actors join a charismatic young man to help a church update its annual Passion play, they attract a great audience filled with hope, praise, temptation and condemnation."
"A troupe of underemployed actors joins a charismatic young man to help a church update its annual Passion Play. Their rag-tag production becomes a lightening rod, attracting a city-full of hope, praise, temptation and condemnation. It's an exhilarating story of faith that balances the most observations on contemporary culture."
"Drame constituant une relecture contemporaine de l'évangile selon Saint Marc et racontant le bouleversement dans la vie d'un jeune acteur appelé à jouer la vie de Jésus. Sollicité par un religieux inquiet, le comédien Daniel Coulombe doit rénover la présentation d'un chemin de croix dramatique : recrutement de camarades, recherches historiques débouchant sur une révision de la vie et de la passion de Jésus. Malgré le succès du spectacle, les autorités religieuses en interdisent la représentation. Blessé dans une émeute, l'acteur subira sa propre passion."
"A troupe of underemployed actors joins a charismatic young man to help a church update its annual Passion play, which attracts a city full of hope, praise, temptation, and condemnation."
"Sollicité par un religieux pour rénover la présentation d'un chemin de croix dramatique, un jeune acteur met au point une version revisée de la passion du Christ."
"A troupe of underemployed actors joins a charismatic young man to help a church update its annual Passion play, which attracts a city full of hope, praise, temptation and condemnation."
"Drame. Dans "Jésus de Montréal", il est question de l'évangile selon Saint-Marc, de la publicité des eaux de Cologne, des frères Karamazov, du doublage des films pornographiques, du Big Bang, de la formule du Coca-Cola Classique, du monologue d'Hamlet, de l'inconvénient d'être né au Burkina-Faso, d'un soldat romain appelé Pantera, des facistes qui communient tous les jours, des transplantations d'organes et de la vinaigrette de Paul Newman. Bref, de tout ce qui est "incontournable"!"
"A group of actors puts on an unorthodox Passion play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church. The actors' lives begin to mirror the life of Jesus."
"Un grupo de actores canadienses quiere representar la vida de Jesús de Nazaret."
"A group of actors in Montreal presents a radical version of the Passion Play, creating contraversy in the church and community."@en
"A Montreal shrine seeks to inspire its congregants by modernizing its staging of the Passion play. A promising cast of vibrant young actors are signed on-- one fresh from perfume commercials, another from the pornographic film industry, and another who had an affair with the basilica's priest-- quickly drive the production on to become a smash hit. But as the play enjoys the success, the actors become more and more challenged to separate their real lives from their lives onstage--Container."
"A Montreal shrine seeks to inspire its congregants by modernizing its staging of the Passion play. A promising cast of vibrant young actors are signed on - one fresh from perfume commercials, another from the pornographic film industry, and another who had an affair with the basilica's priest - quickly drive the production on to become a smash hit. But as the play enjoys the success, the actors become more and more challenged to separate their real lives from their lives onstage."
"Arcand combines an updating of the Christ story with a wide-ranging satire of modern society and a tribute to the joys of the theatre. A talented but obscure actor named Daniel is commissioned by a Montreal cathedral to revamp their annual Passion Play. The ascetic actor casts himself as Jesus and fills the other roles with a group of fringe performers: a beautiful model, a porno-film dubber, a frustrated Hamlet and a priest's mistress. Employing revisionist research and unorthodox stagecraft, Daniel and his disciples transform the hitherto pedantic pageant into an innovative theatrical spectacle. However, the production is suppressed by church authorities, trivialized by the media and commercialized by corporate sharks. The embattled protagonist begins to re-enact his messianic role offstage: denouncing contemporary Pharisees, eschewing the temptations of diabolical lawyers and bringing down the wrath of the establishment. (Circulates)."@en
"A Montreal shrine seeks to inspire its congregants by modernizing its historically successful, yet predictable, staging of the Passion play. A promising cast of vibrant young actors sign on - fresh from perfume commercials, pornographic films and an affair with the basilica's priest - to quickly drive the production to become a smash hit. But as the play enjoys this success, the actors become more and more challenged to separate their real lives from their lives onstage."
"When a troup of underemployed actors join their friend in helping his church with its annual passion play, they create a production which influences the entire city."