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The Brand New Testament is a very odd fish indeed: a Brussels-based fantasy which posits God as a misanthropic bastard cooped up before his computer, devising new ways to give people false hope and make their lives less happy at every turn. His 10-year-old daughter becomes determined to scupper his plans, and sets out into the real world to find herself apostles after letting everyone in the world know the exact date of their death through phone texts. Predictably, this has mixed consequences.
The beauty of the film is that you simply never know what it will do next, including in the dialogue, where smells and sounds are constantly described with very left-field similes. It does take its wilful weirdness a bit far at some junctures, such as when rich housewife Catherine Deneuve, facing death in five years, shacks up with a gorilla. But it's also wonderfully imaginative and very funny at times.
7/10
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