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Images XIX.Indd 300 varia Th e Life of Jesus by Bruno Dumont magnus von horn Director abstract. Horn Magnus von, Th e Life of Jesus by Bruno Dumont. „Images” vol. XIX, no. Poznań . Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. –. ISSN -X. DOI ./i.... Th e thesis will focus on analysing what “Th e Life Of Jesus” is about and how this is portrayed through the main character, Freddy. It will discuss the concept of the fi lmic character as a “common human being”, who does not have access to intellectual refl ection and verbal articulation of emotional confl ict and crisis, but who, at the same time, is capable of feeling a great deal. He feels the emotional confl ict and crisis that make up the story. I will also attempt to step inside the same fi lmic character itself and analyse how to visualize the morals, ethics and emotions that the character can’t verbalize or communicate in any direct or intellectual way. Bruno Dumont speaks about fi lming the inside of a person as his highest dream. I will discuss fi lm directing using Th e Life Of Jesus as an example, but I will also draw on my own experiences as a fi lmmaker. keywords: Th e Life Of Jesus, Bruno Dumont, analyse, actor, emotional confl ict not being able to articulate whatever they were thinking. How they seemed to be prisoners of their primitive bodies and inarticulate thoughts and, without ever becoming pretentious, longed for a bigger meaning that was always present in the fi lm’s language but never through the characters’ language. How the strict cinematog- raphy killed life but, simultaneously, the fi lm an inspiration actually presented much more life than most other realistic dramas. How the fi lm tells a story Introduction of reckless youth through a language that is not Th e fi rst time I saw Th e Life Of Jesus was in at all youthful or reckless. And how that gave 2006 at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. the fi lm a certain depth that I had never before At the time, I didn’t know who Bruno Dumont seen in cinema. It infl uenced and inspired any was and I had no idea what to expect from the serious work of fi ction fi lmmaking I directed fi lm. It was just another class and another fi lm from that day on. In this thesis I aim to dissect one of our teachers thought we should see. Aft er what it is that attracts me so much to this par- the screening I knew immediately that I had ticular fi lm. It is not a thesis that aims to present seen something of great importance to me. the complete oeuvre of Bruno Dumont and his I didn’t know exactly what it was but I felt that work as a fi lmmaker. It is rather a personal re- the fi lmic language used by Dumont communi- fl ection on Th e Life Of Jesus and certain theories cated with me in a way superior to any previous articulated by Dumont. fi lm experience. It had to do with how the actors What interests me is life, people, the small things. moved and looked. How the landscape refl ect- Cinema is for the body, for the emotions. It needs to ed their internal state of mind that they them- be restored among the ordinary people, who don’t selves were never able to articulate. And how speak a lot, but who experience an incredible inten- the characters seemed to hate themselves for sity of joy, emotion, suff ering, sympathy in death. IImagesmages XXIX.inddIX.indd 330000 22017-02-28017-02-28 116:58:016:58:01 varia 301 Th ey don’t speak, speaking is not important. What’s cared much to fi nd a job and prefers to ride his important is the emotions. It is for the spectator motorbike with his other unemployed friends. to make these things conscious, it is not for me to He lives with his mother who owns a small bar. do it… Th e power of cinema lies in the return of He has a girlfriend, Marie, whom he’ll love to man to the body, to the heart, to truth. Th e man of the people has a truth that the man of the city, the death. And that is exactly what happens when intellectual, has lost. (Walsh 1997) the young Arab, Kader, starts approaching Ma- rie. Freddy decides that the “dirty immigrant” Th e thesis will focus on analysing what Th e needs to be punished for daring to look at his Life Of Jesus is about and how this is portrayed girlfriend. But it is fi nally Marie who decides to through the main character Freddy. It will leave Freddy and instead accept the love Kad- discuss the concept of the fi lmic character as er is showing. Freddy’s desire for punishment a “common human being” who does not have looses proportions and he kills Kader. Freddy access to intellectual refl ection and verbal ar- is immediately caught and the fi lm ends with ticulation of emotional confl ict and crisis. But him escaping from the police station and hiding who, at the same time, feels a great deal. Feels in the high grass of a farm fi eld looking at the the emotional confl ict and crisis that make up slowly moving clouds in the sky. the story. I will also attempt to step inside the Th e main plot line is simple and without same fi lmic character itself and analyse how to clever twists and turns. It is even a predictable visualize moral, ethics and emotions that the story but there is a reason for this. Th e story character can’t verbalize or communicate in is not the most important element. According any direct or intellectual way. Bruno Dumont to Dumont the audience needs a simple story speaks about fi lming the inside of a person as to be able to relate and access the more impor- his highest dream. I will discuss fi lm directing tant elements of the fi lm. Th e story of a boy using Th e Life Of Jesus as an example but I will who commits a crime because of jealousy is also use my own experiences as a fi lmmaker. the access point into a world of emotions and thoughts about universal existence. It is the What is Th e Life Of Jesus about relationship between the fi lm and it’s audience Bruno Dumont started making fi ction fi lms that is the most important. Being the audience at a rather late point in life. He had previous- should not be simple and without eff ort. Th e ly been a teacher of philosophy who also shot fi lm doesn’t fi nish when the end credits roll. pre-ordered industry fi lms. For years he was Th e audience fi nish the fi lm when they keep fi lming candy-manufacturing machines, the thinking about it long aft er the screening is over. building of highways, real estate attorneys’ con- Th e Life Of Jesus is a fi lm about the human be- gress’, and other seemingly banal projects. Du- ing’s longing for purpose. Or as Dumont puts it: mont describes how, looking back on this pe- riod, everything he was fi lming, no matter how I had the desire to tell the life of Jesus. Not to repeat dull, became interesting, “I learnt how to make what everybody knows but it is the signifi cance uninteresting things interesting. Th e way I work of that life that interests me. I invented a story today is completely linked to those ten years of to regenerate the meaning, to show that there is fi lming nothing.” (Walsh 1997) At that time he humanism in Christianity that they don’t teach in was physically able to fi lm the inside of a ma- the Church or in the schools. It is concerned with the power of man. I think that man has power. chine, something he would try to adapt to his Man is elevated. At the same time, I think that fi ctional work with actors. His fi rst feature fi lm, man is also very base, like Freddy. I think that Th e Life Of Jesus (original title La Vie De Jesus) his life is suff ering, pain, sadness, love, joy, sex. was made in 1997 and is a contemporary drama Evil is a part of life. It is necessary to confront about Freddy – a boy, living in Bailleul, Flanders it. Perhaps in that confrontation man can raise who, aft er having completed high school, hasn’t himself. (Walsh 1997) IImagesmages XXIX.inddIX.indd 330101 22017-02-28017-02-28 116:58:016:58:01 302 varia Rise and fi nd purpose. At the end of Th e destroyed it for fun. What always gets me is Life Of Jesus Freddy is in complete despair. He the calm with which Merrick leaves his be- has killed a boy. He has confronted his own loved model. He doesn’t cry and doesn’t seem evil. Only at that moment is he ready to rise to feel the pain I feel. And that makes it so and become something better or fi nd meaning much more painful. I get the same feelings in life. Or only at that moment is he ready for from reading about Prince Mysjkin in Dos- the grace of God.
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