The Brand New Testament Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Director(s): Jaco Van Dormael
Production: Music Box Films
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 11 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
NOT RATED
Year:
2015
114 min
$89,182
Website
624 Views


Robert, you have 0 days to live.

Willy, you have 54 days to live.

Jean-Claude, you have

12 years, 9 months, 5 days to live.

Aurlie, you have

11 years, 6 months, 27 days to live.

Marc, you have 83 days to live.

Francois, you have

25 years, 3 months, 8 days to live.

Martine, you have

5 years, 2 months, 17 days to live.

- Psst! Hey, J.C...

- You got the files?

Yeah, I sent everybody

their death date.

Papa's gonna lose all credibility.

He'll be hopping mad.

Super idea!

Giving men knowledge of their own death...

Crazy!

It's still impossible to say

if it's a hoax

or if these death dates

will prove correct.

Who could know when people die?

It's impossible. I don't believe it.

And yet there are troubling coincidences.

For example a fridge fell from a cargo plane

at the precise moment

of the victim's predicted demise.

Andre, you have 2 minutes to live.

It's a special day for this

janitorial technician.

Overnight he's become the

longest lived man in the world.

102 years to live! It's a record!

From the social networks

we have this.

Hi, I'm Kevin. 62 years to live. 62!

Test!

- Sh*t!

- Darling... darling!

Even if cellular regeneration

is programmed,

length of life depends on

unforeseeable factors. It's random.

It's impossible for it

to be predetermined.

12 years, 4 months.

And you?

64 days.

It's not fair!

I've been taking care of you for years,

and you'll live longer than me.

Ea.

Since this morning's announcements

many people did not show up to work.

"What'll we do with the rest of our lives?"

is the most frequently asked

question on social networks.

How has this changed you?

It won't change anything.

I'll continue as before.

Rosalie:
10 months,

12 days to live.

Georges:
16 years,

11 months, 21 days.

Mama!

We're back in the studio

for a news update.

Fighting has stopped in most

war zones,

in the wake of 'Deathleak';

.

the disclosure by an unidenitied

source, of our dates of death.

Goddamn! What is this?

On the social networks we have this:

I'm Bart.

I still have 12 years to live

and I'd like to make the Titanic

out of matchsticks.

Sh*t, goddamn, f***, sh*t!

Henri, 6 years to live.

What I want, is to learn to play

the helicon. (sousaphone)

Goddamn, Goddamn, sh*t!

What the hell?!

Goddamn, Goddamn, sh*t!

What's this?

EAAA!!

Ea, get on my computer

and fix what you screwed up!

Open up!

Ea!

Come back! Papa's not angry.

EAAA!!

It's the fish-burgers.

- What?

- The fish-burgers.

They're made from bits of

stranded whales.

When a whale gets stranded somewhere,

they don't throw it out, they sell it.

And make fish-burgers out of it.

Do you know how to write?

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