The American-born filmmaker Eugène Green exists in his own special artistic orbit. All Green s films share a formal rigor and an increasingly refined modulation between the playfully comic, the urgently human, and the... more » transcendent, and they are each as exquisitely balanced as the baroque music and architecture that he cherishes. His latest movie, The Son of Joseph, is perhaps his most buoyant. A nativity story reboot that gently skewers French cultural pretensions, it features newcomer Victor Ezenfis as a discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father, Mathieu Amalric and Fabrizio Rongione as his, respectively, callous and gentle alternative paternal options, and Natacha Régnier as his single mother.
Special Features: La Manière, a documentary on the work of Eugène Green (38 minutes)« less