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Hal Hartley (writer)
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26 May 1999 (Belgium) more
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A controversial retelling of the Apocalypse
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The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens... more | add synopsis
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Cute and Hip more (31 total)
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(Credited cast) | Martin Donovan | ... | Jesus Christ |
 | P.J. Harvey | ... | Magdalena |
| Thomas Jay Ryan | ... | Satan |
| Miho Nikaido | ... | Edie |
| Anna Köhler | ... | Hotel Clerk |
| Martin Pfefferkorn | ... | Martyr |
 | Layla Alexander | ... | Waitress (as Olga Alexandrova) |
 | Michael Marisi Ornstein | ... | Computer Wizard (as Michael Ornstein) |
| Paul Albe | ... | Mormon Thug #1 |
| Don Creech | ... | Mormon Thug #2 |
| Joseph McKenna | ... | Man at Airport |
 | Abby Royle | ... | Woman at Airport |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| William S. Burroughs | ... | Preacher on radio (voice) |
| Katreen Hardt | ... | Lawyer's Assistant |
| Georgia Hubley | ... | Salvation Army Band (as Yo La Tengo) |
| Ira Kaplan | ... | Salvation Army Band (as Yo La Tengo) |
| James McNew | ... | Salvation Army Band (as Yo La Tengo) |
| D.J. Mendel | ... | Lawyer |
| Dave Simonds | ... | Dave |
 | James Urbaniak | ... | True Believer |
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Jesus Christ: I had considered the truth of the gospels to be self evident, but I had no idea it would be perverted by people who claimed to preach it in my name. more
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The whole recontextualizing of Christ is just killer subject matter. Once you get past despising or evangelizing ancient religious texts, they are a wealth of great metaphors, characters, plots and paradox. PJHarvey here is super junky-sheik petite punk-rock eye candy- with a biblical twist. The idea was kind of a Svankmayer meets Bukowsky perspective on the cataclysmic turning of the millennium- a great concept. Didn't quite pull it off though. The proof is always in the surprise sense of irony in the ending, and it just didn't have it.