God Is Great and I'm Not
by Pascale Bailly
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Actor: Audrey Tautou, Catherine Jacob, Edouard Baer, Julie Depardieu, Philippe LaudenbachDirector: Pascale Bailly
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KOCH LORBER FILMS
Movie Reviews of God Is Great and I'm Not
Movie Review: Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite is good if your soul is french!
Summary: 3 Stars
God is Great, And I'm Not is a comedy about the french spirit of facing feelings and the philosophy of being side by side with your faith in love-spiritual, earthly and self-loving, which means, at one certain point, feeling the love and life as french people do.
It's useless to atch it if you're not used to the french language or the french sight of making movies. You won't like it, you won't understand it, you'll find it boring, and it is not!
I'm not saying this is a great work of Pascalle Bailly, because it isn't at all, but adorable Mich?le (performed by adorable Audrey Tautou is a 20-year-old tornado. With a bouncing, perfectly round Afro and a job posing for fashion photography, she boldly describes herself as a "top model," though her miniature physical size and girlish grin reveals her subdued, searching interior. Overloaded with passion and personality, she seeks a way to channel her spirituality into an identity. Buddhism works. So does Judaism, when she falls for Fran?ois (Edouard Baer), a Jewish veterinarian. Her insistence that Fran?ois prove his religious faith to her by observing Shabbat and obeying other rules causes him a lot of grief. But he adoringly complies. GOD IS GREAT, I'M NOT follows Mich?le over a three-year period via the impulsive and always poetic exclamations she writes in her diary. The film shows how her aggressive attitude towards her family, Fran?ois and all those she holds dear sometimes alienates her. She demands a lot of other people--mainly, that they live life with all the zest with which she has chosen to live her own, and sometimes those demands backfire on her. In total, GOD IS GREAT is an intense and beautiful film fueled by a powerful performance by Tautou, who rules the screen, and an inspired script from director Pascale Bailly.
I insist: if you don't LIVE in france, or have ever done, or if you're not used to French sight of life and faith, go buy another movie. This might sound too european for you!
Summary of God Is Great and I'm Not
The impossibly adorable Audrey Tautou (Amelie, Dirty Pretty Things) stars in this remarkably vivid portrait of a relationship. Michelle (Tautou), a fashion model, sets off on a spiritual quest in the hope of finding emotional balance. What she finds is a veterinarian named Francois (Edouard Baer, Alias Betty), whose ambivalence about being Jewish leads Michelle to study the faith and consider conversion. The plot sounds heavy, but God Is Great (And I'm Not) is actually a light, fluid movie that's as alert to the thousand tiny ways in which men and women miscommunicate and defeat their best intentions. Michelle's spiritual yearnings are questionable, yet Tautou captures her hunger for something more and makes it real, even if it may also be shallow. The movie stutters, slips sideways and back, and circles around--and in the end, says more about modern romance than a dozen Hollywood romantic comedies. --Bret FetzerArt House & International DVD Video
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