The Son of Joseph
54th New York Film Festival
September 30 - 11, 2016
This nativity story reboot from the American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugène Green might be his most buoyant work to date, featuring newcomer Victor Ezenfis, Mathieu Amalric, Fabrizio Rongione, and Natacha Régnier.
The American-born expatriate 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 transcendent, and they are each as exquisitely balanced as the baroque music and architecture that he cherishes. His latest movie, 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. An NYFF54 selection. A Kino Lorber release.
Jocular art house fun with a serious message at its core.
—Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter
Lovable.
—Peter Debruge, The Guardian
Fancifully repackages the Nativity.
—Ben Kinigsberg, The New York Times
A grand and comedic drama of father and son.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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