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Jesus, You Know

Jesus, You Know (Jesus, Du weisst)

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  • Austria
  • 2003
  • · 87m

Director Ulrich Seidl
Genre Documentary

In six different churches, six devout Catholics of different ages pray to Jesus in front of a camera, revealing the deepest parts of their spiritual and emotional lives.

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75

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Inventive and bold, Jesus, You Know will especially resonate with people, like this critic, whose strict Catholic upbringing (some might call it brainwashing) inalterably shaped their lives.

70

The New York Times

Tells the truth where it counts most: in its unblinking exploration of one of the most private of human experiences.

70

Village Voice

Complex and deeply moving documentary.

70

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

If watching devout churchgoers pray to Jesus before a static camera sounds like the dullest idea ever for a documentary, think again: This might be the most fun you've ever had in church.

70

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

Engrossing documentary.

70

Village Voice by Ed Halter

Complex and deeply moving documentary.

70

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

Tells the truth where it counts most: in its unblinking exploration of one of the most private of human experiences.

63

Boston Globe by Janice Page

Whatever blend of fact and fiction is really at work in this latest offering from ''Dog Days" director Ulrich Seidl -- known, by the way, for playing fast and loose with the documentary format -- the irony-laced ''Jesus, You Know" does persuade viewers to sit up and take notice of its inspired conceit.

60

Variety

Visually glorious and sometimes moving, but comes coated with a thick hoarfrost of irony.

60

Variety by Leslie Felperin

Visually glorious and sometimes moving, but comes coated with a thick hoarfrost of irony.