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KINO ON VIDEO AND LEISURE TIME FEATURES TO RELEASE JESUS, YOU KNOW ON DVD
KINO ON VIDEO, in collaboration with LEISURE TIME FEATURES, is proud to release for the first time on DVD the new film by celebrated director Ulrich Seidl (DOG DAYS, ANIMAL LOVE). An “unblinking exploration of one of the most private of human experiences,” (THE NEW YORK TIMES), JESUS, YOU KNOW was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2005 Vienna Film Festival and the recipient of a Critic’s Award at this year’s Montreal Film Festival. Available for prebook on December 6, 2005, with a SRP of $29.95 on DVD, JESUS, YOU KNOW streets on January 3rd, 2006. Capturing six Catholics - of different ages, backgrounds and genders - in a series of confessional dialogues with both Jesus and an omnipresent movie camera, JESUS YOU KNOW is, at its barest, a “deeply moving documentary of Catholics at prayer” (Ed Halter, VILLAGE VOICE). “A remarkably voyeuristic experience” (Stephen Garrett, TIME OUT NEW YORK) JESUS, YOU KNOW consists of successive cinematic tableaux comprised of individual confessions made inside empty churches. Separated by nothing but choral music and brief takes from the lives of the interviewed subjects, these spoken confessions combine the invisibility of direct cinema with abrupt first-person interviews. Although registered by the camera, the confessions are invariably addressed to the divine and are uncomfortably intimate. When a middle-aged woman stares at a statue of Jesus and nags that “problems don’t get discussed...” and are “just watched on TV,” she speaks to a triad of characters: herself, the camera and Jesus. And when an older man ventures into unanswerable questions (“Why did my parents abuse me?), the church’s elongated vaults turn his individual pain into rhetorical phenomenology. More concerned with complexity than with final judgments, Seidl allows every confessional instance to find its own idiosyncratic Jesus - even while leaving the threat of existential emptiness in the final equation. An “inventive and bold” journey into faith and humanity, Jesus, You Know will “especially resonate with people... whose strict Catholic upbringing inalterably shaped their lives.” (V. A. Musetto, NY POST). SPECIAL FEATURES - Ulrich Seidl Filmography
- Trailers
- Enhanced for 16x9 TVs
- Optional English Subtitles
2003 Austria 87 min. Color Letterboxed (1.85:1).
In German with optional English subtitles.
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