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THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT

LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT

By Jaco VAN DORMAEL

GUTEK FILM LTD - as DISTR

Black comedy - Completed 2015

Set in Jaco Van Dormael’s native Belgium, The Brand New Testament is a surreal comedy in which God is a real life character who lives in Brussels. On earth though, God is a coward, with pathetical morals and being odious with his family.

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Black comedy, Comedy
- Countries
- BELGIUM, FRANCE, LUXEMBOURG
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Director(s)
- Jaco VAN DORMAEL
- Writer(s)
- Jaco VAN DORMAEL, Thomas GUNZIG
- Cast
- Benoit POELVOORDE, Catherine DENEUVE, Yolande MOREAU
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-241C-0000-4-0000-0000-P
- EIDR
- 10.5240/DCDD-BCBF-FF93-71FA-A6AF-P
- Producer(s)
- David GRUMBACH (TERRA INCOGNITA FILMS), Daniel MARQUET (TERRA INCOGNITA FILMS), Olivier RAUSIN (CLIMAX FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Set in Jaco Van Dormael’s native Belgium, The Brand New Testament is a surreal comedy in which God is a real life character who lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, with pathetical morals and odious with his family.
  His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can’t stand being locked up in a small apartment in
  ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad, hacks his computer and leaks to the entire world their fatale date of death, causing everyone to suddenly have to think about what to do with the days, months, years they have left to live…