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Release Date: 1989

Cast: Johanne Marie Tremblay , Yves Jacques , Cédric Noël, Robert Lepage, Lothaire Bluteau, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Wilkening , Pauline Martin , Gilles Pelletier, Louise Portal, Rémy Girard

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Political Drama, Christian Film

Jesus of Montreal (French: Jésus de Montréal) is a 1989 Canadian film directed by Denys Arcand. The film centers on a group of actors in Montreal, Canada who are gathered by Daniel, an actor hired by a Roman Catholic site of pilgrimage ("le sanctuaire") to present a Passion play in its gardens. The sanctuary is implied to be Saint Joseph's Oratory (although this organization actually refused permission to film there). In fact, the idea for the film came to its director after an actor apologized for appearing with a beard at an audition. The actor explained that he had the role of Jesus... MORE

Jesus of Montreal (French: Jésus de Montréal) is a 1989 Canadian film directed by Denys Arcand. The film centers on a group of actors in Montreal, Canada who are gathered by Daniel, an actor hired by a Roman Catholic site of pilgrimage ("le sanctuaire") to present a Passion play in its gardens. The sanctuary is implied to be Saint Joseph's Oratory (although this organization actually refused permission to film there). In fact, the idea for the film came to its director after an actor apologized for appearing with a beard at an audition. The actor explained that he had the role of Jesus in a passion play at St-Joseph's Oratory. Arcand went to see the play and recalls "I saw actors in a mediocre production which received shouted applause from the tourists. I decided I had to make a film". The actors' interpretation of the life of Jesus is unconventional (including, for example, the statement that the biological father of Jesus was a Roman soldier, who left Palestine shortly afterwards). Still, it draws on current academic theories and research. The challenging production becomes the toast of the city. The higher authorities of the religious order that controls the sanctuary (or of LESS