The Brand New Testament(2016)

Music Box Films

1h 54m

Release Date: Dec 9, 2016

82%
69%
7.1

Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?

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Release Details

Original Release | Dec 9, 2016 | Limited

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Box Office Results

2025-01-31T13:02:20.894Z

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$10,422
Total US & Canada:
$127,910
Total International
$15,581,742
Total Worldwide:
$15,709,652

Current Showtimes

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Mon Sep 7
Tue Sep 8
Wed Sep 9
Thu Sep 10
Fri Sep 11
Sat Sep 12
Sun Sep 13

Director & Top Cast

Jaco Van Dormael
Director

Pili Groyne
Ea

Benoît Poelvoorde
Dieu

Catherine Deneuve
Martine

François Damiens
François

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Belgium, France, Luxembourg

Language: French,German

Summaries

Plot Summary

Ea, the only daughter of God lives in a remote appartment in Brussels with her extremely vicious and cynical father and her obeyant mother. God is a terrible father who is bored to death. The only thing that makes him escape the untolerable dullness of his routine is to strain people by creating meaningless, but almost sadistic, "laws" mercilessly destroy our beautiful days. But his daughter, like her brother before her, is a sensitive being who has had enough of her father's paranoia. So she sets out on an expedition her brother left unfinished, namely the salvation of the universe from her insanely sick dad. Before that, she destroys her father's computer and publicizes everyone's death date. After escaping, Ea must gather six more apostles in order to end the tyrrany of her father. The apostles are ordinary people whoare deeply shaken by the revelation of their death dates. She helps them find who they trully are and each one of them narrates his own story and creates a gospel, writting the things he's been taught by life, their passions and the moments that defined their personalities. Meanwhile. God is hunting them and gradually discovers how cruel a world he has created and that his powers start leaving him.

Storyline

God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present-day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, descending to earth in search of her own 6 messengers to write a brand new testament and change the status quo.

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