Brown Motion

The names of love.  That is the English translation of this outrageous, hilarious and inspiring French film starring people I have never seen or heard about. This film won some French equivalent of the Oscars ... specifically the lead woman protagonist.  She is an amazing actor.  Wide blue eyes like saucers and a toothy smile and at least one breast exposed is how she waltzes throughout this comedy drama about the war between liberal left and conservative right. Her character is an odd mix of ethnic backgrounds which runs into his, that of a closet Jew with a scientific mind and life of quiet solitude including his work as a veterinarian / epidemiologist in Paris.  The collision of these two personalities, one reserved and scientific and her character a complete hippie who views the world in black and white or leftist and fascists makes for 90 minutes of humor like no other. With phrases that describe arcane concepts like 'hybrid vitality' and 'political whor...

What if such a concept was available now accurate to the minute?  Even those in the esteemed Silicon Valley seem unable to crack this one. Not so for a Belgian filmmaker who directed 'The Brand New Testament'.  Originally released in French this film is a dark comedy about something most humanity holds sacred and frankly is unable to or unwilling to discuss.  Death. The basic plot revolves around a family in Brussels, the father is God who along with his timid wife and a 12 year old daughter, Ea, live in an apartment.  God pretty much runs the show and does not allow anyone in his family to have a say in anything and neither is anyone allowed outside their apartment. One day the bold and insanely curious Ea escapes through a wormhole inside the washing machine in the apartment and goes in search of discovering the unknown.  Not before she breaks into God's computer and broadcasts the date of death to all living people on the planet. Conceptually audac...