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{{Short description|2015 European comedy film}}
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{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
| name = The Brand New Testament
| name = The Brand New Testament
| image = Le Tout Nouveau Testament poster.jpg
| image = The Brand New Testament poster.png
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Jaco Van Dormael]]
| director = [[Jaco Van Dormael]]
| producer = Jaco Van Dormael<br />[[Frank Van Passel]]
| producer = Jaco Van Dormael<br />[[Frank Van Passel]]
| writer = Jaco Van Dormael<br />Thomas Gunzig
| writer = Jaco Van Dormael<br />Thomas Gunzig
| based on =
| based_on =
| starring = [[Benoît Poelvoorde]]<br />[[Catherine Deneuve]]<br />[[François Damiens]]<br />[[Yolande Moreau]]<br />Pili Groyne
| starring = [[Benoît Poelvoorde]]<br />[[Catherine Deneuve]]<br />[[François Damiens]]<br />[[Yolande Moreau]]<br />Pili Groyne
| music = [[An Pierlé]]
| music = [[An Pierlé]]
| cinematography = [[Christophe Beaucarne]]
| cinematography = [[Christophe Beaucarne]]
| editing = [[Hervé de Luze]]
| editing = [[Hervé de Luze]]
| distributor = Le Pacte
| distributor = [[Le Pacte]]
| studio = Terra Incognita Films
| studio = Terra Incognita Films
| released = {{film date|2015|5|17|[[2015 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]]|2015|9|1|Belgium|df=yes}}
| released = {{film date|2015|5|17|[[2015 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]]|2015|9|1|Belgium|df=yes}}
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| country = Belgium<br />France<br />Luxembourg
| country = Belgium<br />France<br />Luxembourg
| language = French
| language = French
| budget = €8.7 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=15384|title=Le Tout Nouveau Testament |work=JP's Box-Office}}</ref>
| budget = $8.7 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=15384|title=Le Tout Nouveau Testament |work=JP's Box-Office}}</ref>
| gross = $14.5 million<ref name="boxoffice">{{cite web|title=Le tout nouveau testament|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2015W49&id=_fLETOUTNOUVEAUTES01|website={{noitalic|[[Box Office Mojo]]}}|accessdate=January 27, 2016}}</ref>
| gross = $15.7 million<ref name="boxoffice">{{cite web|title=Le tout nouveau testament|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2015W49&id=_fLETOUTNOUVEAUTES01|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=2 May 2016}}</ref>
}}
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'''''The Brand New Testament''''' ({{lang-fr|'''Le Tout Nouveau Testament'''}}) is a 2015 [[fantasy film|fantasy]] [[dark comedy]] film written, produced, and directed by [[Jaco Van Dormael]]. It is a co-production between Belgium, France, and Luxembourg. The film was screened at the [[Directors' Fortnight]] section at the [[2015 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="Variety">{{cite web |url=http://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/cannes-directors-fortnight-lineup-unveiled-1201476479/ |title=Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight Unveils 2015 Lineup |first=Justin|last=Chang |date=21 April 2015 |accessdate=21 April 2015 |work=Variety}}</ref> It was selected as the Belgian entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[88th Academy Awards]],<ref name="Belgium">{{cite web|url=http://variety.com/2015/film/global/belgium-sends-the-brand-new-testament-to-foreign-language-oscar-race-1201599674/ |title=Belgium Sends ‘The Brand New Testament’ To Foreign-Language Oscar Race |last=Keslassy |first=Elsa |work=Variety |date=22 September 2015 |accessdate=22 September 2015}}</ref> making the December shortlist of nine films, but was not nominated.<ref name="Dec15Short">{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/news/9-foreign-language-films-advance-oscarr-race-1 |title=9 Foreign Language Films Advance In Oscar Race |work=Oscars |date=17 December 2015 |accessdate=18 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="Dec15ShortHW">{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-nine-titles-advance-foreign-850070 |title=Oscars: Nine Titles Advance in Foreign Language Category |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |last=Kilday |first=Gregg |date=17 December 2015 |accessdate=18 December 2015}}</ref> ''The Brand New Testament'' received ten nominations at the [[6th Magritte Awards]], winning four awards, including [[Magritte Award for Best Film|Best Film]] and [[Magritte Award for Best Director|Best Director]] for Van Dormael.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Moury|first1=Gaëlle|last2=Bradfer|first2=Fabienne|title=Jaco Van Dormael et la Flandre se distinguent aux Magritte du cinéma|url=http://www.lesoir.be/1113141/article/culture/cinema/2016-02-05/jaco-van-dormael-et-flandre-se-distinguent-aux-magritte-du-cinema|accessdate=February 7, 2016|work=Le Soir|date=February 7, 2016|language=French}}</ref>
'''''The Brand New Testament''''' ({{langx|fr|'''Le Tout Nouveau Testament'''}}) is a 2015 [[fantasy film|fantasy]] [[dark comedy]] film written, produced, and directed by [[Jaco Van Dormael]]. It is a co-production among Belgium, France, and Luxembourg. The film was screened at the [[Directors' Fortnight]] section at the [[2015 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="Variety">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/cannes-directors-fortnight-lineup-unveiled-1201476479/ |title=Cannes: Directors' Fortnight Unveils 2015 Lineup |first=Justin|last=Chang |date=21 April 2015 |access-date=21 April 2015 |work=Variety}}</ref> It was selected as the Belgian entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[88th Academy Awards]],<ref name="Belgium">{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/global/belgium-sends-the-brand-new-testament-to-foreign-language-oscar-race-1201599674/ |title=Belgium Sends 'The Brand New Testament' To Foreign-Language Oscar Race |last=Keslassy |first=Elsa |work=Variety |date=22 September 2015 |access-date=22 September 2015}}</ref> making the December shortlist of nine films, but was not nominated.<ref name="Dec15Short">{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/news/9-foreign-language-films-advance-oscarr-race-1 |title=9 Foreign Language Films Advance In Oscar Race |work=Oscars |date=17 December 2015 |access-date=18 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="Dec15ShortHW">{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-nine-titles-advance-foreign-850070 |title=Oscars: Nine Titles Advance in Foreign Language Category |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |last=Kilday |first=Gregg |date=17 December 2015 |access-date=18 December 2015}}</ref> ''The Brand New Testament'' received ten nominations at the [[6th Magritte Awards]], winning four awards, including [[Magritte Award for Best Film|Best Film]] and [[Magritte Award for Best Director|Best Director]] for Van Dormael.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|last1=Moury|first1=Gaëlle|last2=Bradfer|first2=Fabienne|title=Jaco Van Dormael et la Flandre se distinguent aux Magritte du cinéma|url=http://www.lesoir.be/1113141/article/culture/cinema/2016-02-05/jaco-van-dormael-et-flandre-se-distinguent-aux-magritte-du-cinema|access-date=7 February 2016|work=Le Soir|date=7 February 2016|language=fr}}</ref> The film has become a [[cult film]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/spotlight/new-talent-emerges-from-belgian-cinema-scene-1201771914/|title=New Talent Emerges From Belgian Cinema Scene|first1=Damon|last1=Wise|date=16 May 2016}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
God lives in an apartment in Brussels, which he shares with his meek wife and his 10-year-old daughter Ea, to whom he is emotionally and physically abusive. God is a grumpy sadist who created humankind specifically to have something to torment. He manipulates reality via a personal computer, which he strictly forbids his family from accessing. One day, Ea sneaks into his office and discovers how He has been mistreating humans. This enrages God, who whips Ea with his belt. Ea decides to rebel against her father. She steals the key to His office and accesses the pre-destined dates of death of every human in the world and releases it to the world. Everyone in Brussels receives a text message informing them when they are destined to die. Ea then locks God's computer and escapes the apartment through a chute in the laundry room. Wandering the streets of Brussels, Ea decides to follow in Jesus' footsteps and write the Brand New Testament in order to spiritually uplift the human race. She selects six apostles.
God lives in an apartment in [[Brussels]] which he shares with his meek wife and his 10-year-old daughter [[Enki|Ea]], to whom he is emotionally and physically abusive. God is a grumpy sadist who created humankind specifically to have something to torment. He manipulates reality via the computer in his office. One day when he forgets to lock the door, Ea sneaks in, sees on the computer how God has been making humans suffer, and confronts him about it. He is furious and whips Ea with his belt. Ea decides to rebel against her father. Together with her brother [[Jesus]], who secretly lives in their apartment disguised as a statue, she decides to go into the world, find six more apostles and have a "brand new testament" written. Ea steals the office key, accesses the database with all birthdays and times of death of every human in the world, and has the computer send a text message to each of them announcing their time of death. Then she randomly takes six persons' records from the database, puts a software lock on God's computer, and escapes from the apartment through their washing machine, which Jesus hacked to provide a tunnel to the outside world. Wandering the streets of Brussels, Ea first enlists a homeless man, Victor, to be her scribe, since she cannot write well, and then begins to find her six apostles to narrate their own life stories for the Testament.


The first apostle is a reclusive woman who lost her left arm in an accident and feels nobody will love her. The second is a man who hates his work and his life, and has decided to never move from a bench in the park now that he knows the date of his death. Ea translates to allow him to converse with a bird. This induces him to follow a flock of birds to the North Pole. The third apostle is a sexually frustrated man who is awkward with women and remains lovesick for a German girl he met once as a boy. With Ea's encouragement, he becomes a voice actor for porn movies, where he encounters and establishes a relationship with his lifelong fixation. The fourth apostle is a man who is fascinated with death and killing. He purchases a rifle and shoots people knowing that, since all death dates are already predetermined, they cannot be his responsibility. Ea prods him to shoot a woman, the first apostle. When she doesn't die, because he hit her in her prosthetic arm, he believes this to be a divine signal, starts a relationship with her, and learns to embrace life instead of death. The fifth apostle is an elderly woman trapped in a loveless marriage, especially now that her husband knows he will outlive her by many years. Ea persuades her to cheat on her husband. She has sex with a young male prostitute, and then forms a love relationship with a gorilla. The gorilla scares her husband away, to her delight. The sixth apostle is a sickly boy who, with only days left to live, decides to live them as a girl. Ea encourages him to live each day as the equivalent of one month.
Before finding them, she gets a scribe, a homeless man: Victor.
The first apostle is a reclusive woman who lost her left arm in an accident and feels nobody will love her. The second one is a man who hates his work and his life, who has decided to never move from a bench in the park since he knew his date of death; eventually he starts a trip following a bird who asked him why would he stay there if he could go anywhere (with Ea translating for them.)The third apostle is a sexually-frustrated old man who is awkward around women. He is perpetually lovesick over a girl he met once as a boy. On Ea's encouragement, he becomes a voice actor for porn movies, where he coincidentally meets the girl of his youth. They form a relationship which they consummate. The fourth apostle is a man who is fascinated with death. When he learns that everyone's death is pre-destined, he purchases a rifle with plans to shoot pedestrians, believing that he will not really be at fault for their deaths.


God is horrified when he discovers what Ea has done and that he can no longer torment humans. Locked out of his computer, he is powerless. He leaves the apartment using the same route that ends in a laundry room, and in the real world he suffers all the mistreatment and frustrations he created for mankind. He is assaulted by everyone he meets. When he wants to go back, he finds that the tunnel to his apartment has disappeared and he is trapped on Earth powerless and alone. He takes shelter in a church, where his outrageous criticism of his son Jesus Christ provokes a charitable priest into beating him senseless and eventually gets him locked up with a group of illegal immigrants that are to be deported to [[Uzbekistan]].
Ea prods him to shoot a woman, who happens to be the first apostle. He hits her in her prosthetic arm. Believing this to be a divine signal, he courts the woman and forms a relationship, and learns to embrace life instead of death. The fifth apostle is an elderly woman trapped in a loveless marriage. Ea persuades her to cheat on her husband. She first does so with a male prostitute, then with a gorilla. The gorilla beats up her husband, to her delight. The sixth apostle is a sickly boy who discovers he has only days left to live. Ea encourages him to stop conforming to society and live his few remaining days according to his inner desires. He chooses to dress and act like a girl.


Ea and her apostles go to the seaside where hundreds of people have gathered to spend the last hours of their lives. An airplane approaches: it's carrying the group of immigrants, including God, under police escort, and is scheduled to crash onto the beach and kill everyone according to God's own previous programming.
God is horrified when he discovers what Ea has done. With everyone now aware of the time they have left, he can no longer torment humans through their fear of death. Worse still, with His computer locked, He is powerless. He leaves the apartment for the first time in His life through the chute in the laundry room. Because of His rude manners, he is abused by everyone He meets. He discovers to his horror that the chute to his apartment is gone and He is trapped in the outside world, powerless and alone. He is forced to take shelter in a church, and is eventually deported to Uzbekistan after being mistaken for an illegal migrant.
In the meantime, God's wife has realized that the number of apostles has grown to 18, her favorite number, enters her husband's office and cleans up. In the process, the computer restarts and now invites her to take control. The previously scheduled death dates are overruled.

The airplane regains altitude and the world is reset under a flower-filled sky. Victor's Brand New Testament is published, becomes a bestseller, and catapults him out of hopeless poverty into a new life of fame and fortune. God reaches Uzbekistan where he is put to work on an assembly line manufacturing washing machines. He frantically checks each washing machine if maybe it has an escape hatch that will take him back to his apartment.
Ea and her apostles go to the seaside, where hundred of people have gathered to spend the last hours of their lives. An airplane, which just so happens to be carrying God under police escort, falls out of the sky, threatening everyone on the beach. At this moment, however, God's wife, who has grown accustomed to life without her husband, accesses God's computer and repeals everyone's destined date of death. The airplane regains altitude and everyone has a new lease on life. Victor publishes the Brand New Testament, which becomes a bestseller, lifting him out of poverty. God winds up in Uzbekistan, working in an appliance factory, where he vainly searches washing machines for a passage back to his apartment.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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{{Div col}}
* [[François Damiens]] as François (fourth apostle)
* [[Benoît Poelvoorde]] as God
* Didier De Neck as Jean-Claude (second apostle)
* [[Catherine Deneuve]] as Martine
* [[François Damiens]] as François
* [[Catherine Deneuve]] as Martine (fifth apostle)
* [[Yolande Moreau]] as God's wife
* Pili Groyne as God's daughter, Ea
* Laura Verlinden as Aurélie
* Serge Larivière as Marc
* [[David Murgia]] as [[Jesus Christ]]
* [[Johan Leysen]] as Martine's husband
* [[Pascal Duquenne]] as Georges
* [[Pascal Duquenne]] as Georges
* Romain Gelin as Willy (sixth apostle)
* Viviane De Muynck as Georges' mother
* Pili Groyne as God's daughter, [[Enki|Ea]]
* [[Johan Heldenbergh]] as the priest
* [[Johan Heldenbergh]] as The priest
* Serge Larivière as Marc (third apostle)
* [[Johan Leysen]] as Martine's husband
* Marco Lorenzini as Victor (the scribe)
* [[Yolande Moreau]] as God's wife
* [[David Murgia]] as [[Jesus Christ|JC]], Ea's brother
* [[Benoît Poelvoorde]] as God
* [[Laura Verlinden]] as Aurélie (first apostle)
{{Div end}}
{{Div end}}


==Reception==
==Reception==
''The Brand New Testament'' received acclaim from film critics. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[Standard score|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an [[Weighted arithmetic mean|average]] score of 80, based on 5 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-brand-new-testament/critic-reviews|title=Critic Reviews for The Brand New Testament|website={{noitalic|[[Metacritic]]}}|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|accessdate=August 28, 2014}}</ref>
''The Brand New Testament'' received generally favorable reviews from film critics. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 82%, based on 74 reviews with an average rating of 7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "''The Brand New Testament'' takes a surreal, subversive, and funny look at Biblical themes through a modern — and refreshingly original — lens."<ref>{{cite web|title=The Brand New Testament (Le tout nouveau testament) (2016)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_brand_new_testament|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=3 July 2018}}</ref> At [[Metacritic]], the film received an [[Weighted arithmetic mean|average]] score of 70 out of 100, based on 17 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-brand-new-testament|title=The Brand New Testament Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]]|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|access-date=27 May 2017}}</ref>


==Accolades==
==Accolades==
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! scope="col"| Result
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| [[Austin Film Critics Association]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awardswatch.com/news/austin-film-critics-association-afca-nominations-the-handmaiden-lands-top-mentions-trevante-rhodes-double-nominated/ |title=Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations: The Handmaiden Lands Top Mentions, Trevante Rhodes Double Nominated |first=Erik |last=Anderson |publisher=AwardsWatch.com |date=December 15, 2016 |access-date=December 15, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/austin-film-critics-association/2016-nominations-5307a85b7c6a#.yjh64hs3i |title=2016 Austin Film Critics Awards Nominees, 'Moonlight' and 'Arrival' lead the way in AFCA's 2016 nominations |first=Neil |last=Miller |publisher=Medium.com |date=December 15, 2016 |access-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622043509/https://austinfilmcritics.org/2016-nominations-5307a85b7c6a?gi=99f3d4c637ab#.yjh64hs3i |archive-date=22 June 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| [[Belgian Film Critics Association]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Charles|last=De Clercq|url=http://www.cinecure.be/La-preselection-de-l-UCC-et-le-924|title=La présélection de l’UCC et le prix Cavens|work=Cinécure|date=December 18, 2015|accessdate=December 26, 2015|language=French}}</ref>
| Best Foreign Language Film
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[Belgian Film Critics Association]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Charles|last=De Clercq|url=http://www.cinecure.be/La-preselection-de-l-UCC-et-le-924|title=La présélection de l'UCC et le prix Cavens|work=Cinécure|date=18 December 2015|access-date=26 December 2015|language=fr}}</ref>
| [[André Cavens Award|Best Film]]
| [[André Cavens Award|Best Film]]
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[Biografilm Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Biografilm 2015, tutti i vincitori|url=http://www.mymovies.it/cinemanews/2015/120936/|publisher=[[Mymovies.it]]|accessdate=31 August 2015|language=Italian|date=15 June 2015}}</ref>
| rowspan="2"|[[Biografilm Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Biografilm 2015, tutti i vincitori|url=http://www.mymovies.it/cinemanews/2015/120936/|publisher=[[Mymovies.it]]|access-date=31 August 2015|language=it|date=15 June 2015}}</ref>
| Europa Audience Award
| Europa Audience Award
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
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| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
| rowspan="3"|[[2015 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="allocine">{{cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-222641/palmares/|title=Récompenses et nominations pour le film Le Tout Nouveau Testament|publisher=[[AlloCiné]]|accessdate=31 August 2015|language=French}}</ref>
| rowspan="3"|[[2015 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="allocine">{{cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-222641/palmares/|title=Récompenses et nominations pour le film Le Tout Nouveau Testament|publisher=[[AlloCiné]]|access-date=31 August 2015|language=fr}}</ref>
| Art Cinema Award
| Art Cinema Award
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
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| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| [[41st César Awards|César Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Keslassy|first1=Elsa|title=‘Golden Years,’ ‘Marguerite,’ ‘Dheepan,’ ‘Mustang’ Lead Cesar Nominations|url=http://variety.com/2016/film/global/golden-years-marguerite-dheepan-mustang-lead-cesar-nominations-1201689761/|accessdate=January 27, 2016|work=Variety|date=January 27, 2016}}</ref>
| [[41st César Awards|César Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Keslassy|first1=Elsa|title='Golden Years,' 'Marguerite,' 'Dheepan,' 'Mustang' Lead Cesar Nominations|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/global/golden-years-marguerite-dheepan-mustang-lead-cesar-nominations-1201689761/|access-date=27 January 2016|work=Variety|date=27 January 2016}}</ref>
| [[César Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| [[César Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| [[David di Donatello]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lombardi|first1=Letizia Lara|title=David di Donatello 2016, ecco tutte le nomination|url=http://www.bestmovie.it/news/david-di-donatello-2016-ecco-tutte-le-nomination/454739/|accessdate=April 5, 2016|work=Best Movie|date=March 22, 2016}}</ref>
| [[David di Donatello]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lombardi|first1=Letizia Lara|title=David di Donatello 2016, ecco tutte le nomination|url=http://www.bestmovie.it/news/david-di-donatello-2016-ecco-tutte-le-nomination/454739/|access-date=5 April 2016|work=Best Movie|date=22 March 2016}}</ref>
| [[David di Donatello for Best European Film|Best European Film]]
| [[David di Donatello for Best European Film|Best European Film]]
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{pending}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[28th European Film Awards|European Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Guy|last=Lodge|title=‘Youth,’ ‘The Lobster’ Lead European Film Award Nominations|url=http://variety.com/2015/film/in-contention/european-film-award-nominations-efa-youth-the-lobster-1201635797/|date=7 November 2015|work=Variety|accessdate=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| rowspan="2"|[[28th European Film Awards|European Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Guy|last=Lodge|title='Youth,' 'The Lobster' Lead European Film Award Nominations|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/in-contention/european-film-award-nominations-efa-youth-the-lobster-1201635797/|date=7 November 2015|work=Variety|access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| [[European Film Award for Best Comedy|Best European Comedy]]
| [[European Film Award for Best Comedy|Best European Comedy]]
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
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| {{won}}
| {{won}}
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| [[Palić Film Festival|European Film Festival Palić]]<ref>{{cite web|title=European Film Festival Palić to include the world premiere of Veiko Õunpuu's Roukli|url=http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=295781|date=17 July 2015|work=Cineuropa|accessdate=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| [[29th European Film Awards|European Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The EFA opens vote for the People's Choice Award|url=http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=314818|date=1 September 2016|work=Cineuropa|access-date=10 October 2015}}</ref>
| [[European Film Academy People's Choice Award for Best European Film|People's Choice Award for Best European Film]]
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Palić Film Festival|European Film Festival Palić]]<ref>{{cite web|title=European Film Festival Palić to include the world premiere of Veiko Õunpuu's Roukli|url=http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=295781|date=17 July 2015|work=Cineuropa|access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| Best Film
| Best Film
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| [[Fantastic Fest]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Brand New Testament wins Best Comedy at the Austin Fantastic Fest|url=http://www.wbimages.be/index.php?id=8974&no_cache=1&L=1&tx_cfwbwbiarticle_pi1%5Buid%5D=842|accessdate=13 January 2016|publisher=Wallonie-Bruxelles Images|date=2 October 2015}}</ref>
| [[Fantastic Fest]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Brand New Testament wins Best Comedy at the Austin Fantastic Fest|url=http://www.wbimages.be/index.php?id=8974&no_cache=1&L=1&tx_cfwbwbiarticle_pi1%5Buid%5D=842|access-date=13 January 2016|publisher=Wallonie-Bruxelles Images|date=2 October 2015}}</ref>
| Best Comedy
| Best Comedy
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
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| [[Filmfest Hamburg]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Brand New Testament|url=http://www.filmfesthamburg.de/en/programm/Film/25533/|accessdate=13 January 2016|publisher=Filmfest Hamburg}}</ref>
| [[Filmfest Hamburg]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Brand New Testament|url=http://www.filmfesthamburg.de/en/programm/Film/25533/|access-date=13 January 2016|publisher=Filmfest Hamburg|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040045/http://www.filmfesthamburg.de/en/programm/Film/25533/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| Art Cinema Award
| Art Cinema Award
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
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|-
| [[73rd Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Brent|last=Lang|title=‘Carol,’ Netflix Lead Golden Globes Nomination|url=http://variety.com/2015/film/awards/golden-globe-nominations-2016-1201658153/|accessdate=10 December 2015|work=Variety|date=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| rowspan="4"|[[Film awards|Francophone Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|title=4ème édition des Trophées Francophones du Cinéma|url=http://www.afiavimagazine.com/4eme-edition-des-trophees-francophones-du-cinema/|work=Afiavi|access-date=23 December 2016|date=4 October 2016}}</ref>
| Best Film
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
|-
| Best Screenplay
| Jaco Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig
| {{won}}
|-
| Best Actor
| [[Benoît Poelvoorde]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| Best Supporting Actress
| [[Yolande Moreau]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[73rd Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Brent|last=Lang|title='Carol,' Netflix Lead Golden Globes Nomination|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/awards/golden-globe-nominations-2016-1201658153/|access-date=10 December 2015|work=Variety|date=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| [[Haifa International Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fainaru|first1=Edna|title=Elad Keidan's 'Afterthought' wins at Haifa Film Festival|url=http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/elad-keidans-afterthought-wins-at-haifa-film-festival/5095071.article?|website=ScreenDaily|accessdate=January 16, 2016|date=October 5, 2015}}</ref>
| [[Gopo Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Blaga|last=Iulia|title=Aferim! Leads Gopo Awards Nods|url=http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/romania-news/item/112236-aferim-leads-gopo-awards-nods|access-date=2 May 2016|work=Film New Europe|date=24 February 2016}}</ref>
| Best European Film
| Fedeora Award
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[Haifa International Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fainaru|first1=Edna|title=Elad Keidan's 'Afterthought' wins at Haifa Film Festival|url=http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/elad-keidans-afterthought-wins-at-haifa-film-festival/5095071.article?|website=ScreenDaily|access-date=16 January 2016|date=5 October 2015}}</ref>
| Best International Film
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
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| Carmel Award
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| [[21st Lumières Awards|Lumières Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18649483.html |title=Prix Lumières 2016 : Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse et Mustang en tête des nominations |date=4 January 2016 |work=[[AlloCiné]]}}</ref>
| [[21st Lumières Awards|Lumières Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18649483.html |title=Prix Lumières 2016 : Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse et Mustang en tête des nominations |date=4 January 2016 |work=[[AlloCiné]]}}</ref>
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| {{nom}}
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| rowspan="2"|[[Film awards|Luxembourg Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pinto|first1=Vitor|title=Luxembourg’s D’Filmakademie unveils nominations for its biennial awards|url=http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=302942|publisher=Cineuropa|accessdate=January 16, 2016|date=December 16, 2015}}</ref>
| rowspan="2"|[[Film awards|Luxembourg Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pinto|first1=Vitor|title=Luxembourg's D'Filmakademie unveils nominations for its biennial awards|url=http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=302942|publisher=Cineuropa|access-date=16 January 2016|date=16 December 2015}}</ref>
| Best Film in Coproduction
| Best Film in Coproduction
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
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| {{nom}}
|-
|-
|rowspan="10"|[[6th Magritte Awards|Magritte Awards]]<ref name="auto"/>
|rowspan="10"|[[6th Magritte Awards|Magritte Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Moury|first1=Gaëlle|last2=Bradfer|first2=Fabienne|title=Jaco Van Dormael et la Flandre se distinguent aux Magritte du cinéma|url=http://www.lesoir.be/1113141/article/culture/cinema/2016-02-05/jaco-van-dormael-et-flandre-se-distinguent-aux-magritte-du-cinema|accessdate=February 7, 2016|work=Le Soir|date=February 7, 2016|language=French}}</ref>
|[[Magritte Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
|[[Magritte Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
|''The Brand New Testament''
|''The Brand New Testament''
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|[[Magritte Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
|[[Magritte Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
|Thomas Gunzig and Jaco Van Dormael
|Jaco Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
|[[Magritte Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
|[[Magritte Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
|[[Yolande Moreau]]
|Yolande Moreau
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
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| {{won}}
| {{won}}
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| [[Méliès d'Or]]<ref>{{cite web|title=La jeune actrice bruxelloise Pili Groyne récompensée au festival de Sitgès|url=http://www.rtl.be/info/magazine/culture/la-jeune-actrice-bruxelloise-pili-groyne-recompensee-au-festival-de-sitges-763300.aspx|publisher=[[RTL Group|RTL]]|date=17 October 2015|language=French|accessdate=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| [[Méliès d'Or]]<ref>{{cite web|title=La jeune actrice bruxelloise Pili Groyne récompensée au festival de Sitgès|url=http://www.rtl.be/info/magazine/culture/la-jeune-actrice-bruxelloise-pili-groyne-recompensee-au-festival-de-sitges-763300.aspx|publisher=[[RTL Group|RTL]]|date=17 October 2015|language=fr|access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| Best European Fantastic Film
| Best European Fantastic Film
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[Norwegian International Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Jorn|last=Rossing Jensen|title=Jaco Van Dormael's 'The Brand New Testament' wins in Haugesund|url=http://www.screendaily.com/news/jaco-van-dormaels-the-brand-new-testament-wins-in-haugesund/5091878.article|date=20 August 2015|work=[[Screen Daily]]|accessdate=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| rowspan="2"|[[Norwegian International Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Jorn|last=Rossing Jensen|title=Jaco Van Dormael's 'The Brand New Testament' wins in Haugesund|url=http://www.screendaily.com/news/jaco-van-dormaels-the-brand-new-testament-wins-in-haugesund/5091878.article|date=20 August 2015|work=[[Screen Daily]]|access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref>
| Audience Award
| Audience Award
| ''The Brand New Testament''
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| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
| [[Palm Springs International Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lowe|first1=Kinsey|title='Labyrinth Of Lies', Nora Ephron Doc 'Everything Is Copy' Take Audience Awards At Palm Springs Fest|url=https://deadline.com/2016/01/labyrinth-of-lies-nora-ephron-doc-everything-is-copy-palm-springs-film-festival-1201679729/|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|publisher=Penske Business Media|access-date=16 January 2016|date=10 January 2016}}</ref>
| [[20th Satellite Awards|Satellite Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressacademy.com/award_cat/2015/|work=[[International Press Academy]]|at=pressacademy.com|title=Satellite Awards (2015)|publisher=[[International Press Academy|IPA]]|accessdate=December 2, 2015|date=December 2, 2015}}</ref>
| Best Narrative Feature
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{draw|Runner-up}}
|-
| [[20th Satellite Awards|Satellite Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressacademy.com/award_cat/2015/|work=[[International Press Academy]]|at=pressacademy.com|title=Satellite Awards (2015)|publisher=[[International Press Academy|IPA]]|access-date=2 December 2015|date=2 December 2015}}</ref>
| [[Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
| [[Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| [[Film awards|Sergio Amidei Award]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Presentato il 35° Premio Sergio Amidei|url=http://www.cinemaitaliano.info/news/36785/presentato-il-35-premio-sergio-amidei.html|website=CinemaItaliano.info|access-date=5 July 2016|date=10 October 2016|language=it}}</ref>
| [[Palm Springs International Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lowe|first1=Kinsey|title='Labyrinth Of Lies', Nora Ephron Doc 'Everything Is Copy' Take Audience Awards At Palm Springs Fest|url=http://deadline.com/2016/01/labyrinth-of-lies-nora-ephron-doc-everything-is-copy-palm-springs-film-festival-1201679729/|website={{noitalic|Deadline.com}}|publisher=Penske Business Media|accessdate=January 16, 2016|date=January 10, 2016}}</ref>
| Best Narrative Feature
| Best Screenplay
| Jaco Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{draw|Runner-up}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| rowspan="3"|[[Sitges Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|title='The Invitation' is proclaimed the winner of Sitges 2015|url=http://sitgesfilmfestival.com/eng/noticies/?id=1003326|publisher=Sitges Film Festival|accessdate=10 December 2015|date=17 October 2015}}</ref>
| rowspan="3"|[[Sitges Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|title='The Invitation' is proclaimed the winner of Sitges 2015|url=http://sitgesfilmfestival.com/eng/noticies/?id=1003326|publisher=Sitges Film Festival|access-date=10 December 2015|date=17 October 2015}}</ref>
| Best Film
| Best Film
| ''The Brand New Testament''
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| {{won}}
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| [[Tallgrass Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Kate|last=Erbland|title=Film Festival Roundup: AFI FEST Adds 'La La Land' Gala, London Awards Kelly Reichardt's 'Certain Women' and More|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/10/film-festival-roundup-afi-fest-la-la-land-london-kelly-reichardt-certain-women-1201738690/|date=20 October 2016|work=[[Indiewire]]|access-date=10 November 2016}}</ref>
| Outstanding Narrative Feature
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Film awards|Trailers FilmFest]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Tutti i premiati della quattordicesima edizione del Trailers Film Festival|url=http://www.cinemaitaliano.info/news/38063/tutti-i-premiati-della-quattordicesima-edizione.html|website=CinemaItaliano.info|access-date=10 October 2016|date=10 October 2016|language=it}}</ref>
| Best European Trailer
| ''The Brand New Testament''
| {{won}}
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Latest revision as of 09:23, 18 November 2024

The Brand New Testament
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJaco Van Dormael
Written byJaco Van Dormael
Thomas Gunzig
Produced byJaco Van Dormael
Frank Van Passel
StarringBenoît Poelvoorde
Catherine Deneuve
François Damiens
Yolande Moreau
Pili Groyne
CinematographyChristophe Beaucarne
Edited byHervé de Luze
Music byAn Pierlé
Production
company
Terra Incognita Films
Distributed byLe Pacte
Release dates
  • 17 May 2015 (2015-05-17) (Cannes)
  • 1 September 2015 (2015-09-01) (Belgium)
Running time
113 minutes
CountriesBelgium
France
Luxembourg
LanguageFrench
Budget$8.7 million[1]
Box office$15.7 million[2]

The Brand New Testament (French: Le Tout Nouveau Testament) is a 2015 fantasy dark comedy film written, produced, and directed by Jaco Van Dormael. It is a co-production among Belgium, France, and Luxembourg. The film was screened at the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[3] It was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards,[4] making the December shortlist of nine films, but was not nominated.[5][6] The Brand New Testament received ten nominations at the 6th Magritte Awards, winning four awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Van Dormael.[7] The film has become a cult film.[8]

Plot

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God lives in an apartment in Brussels which he shares with his meek wife and his 10-year-old daughter Ea, to whom he is emotionally and physically abusive. God is a grumpy sadist who created humankind specifically to have something to torment. He manipulates reality via the computer in his office. One day when he forgets to lock the door, Ea sneaks in, sees on the computer how God has been making humans suffer, and confronts him about it. He is furious and whips Ea with his belt. Ea decides to rebel against her father. Together with her brother Jesus, who secretly lives in their apartment disguised as a statue, she decides to go into the world, find six more apostles and have a "brand new testament" written. Ea steals the office key, accesses the database with all birthdays and times of death of every human in the world, and has the computer send a text message to each of them announcing their time of death. Then she randomly takes six persons' records from the database, puts a software lock on God's computer, and escapes from the apartment through their washing machine, which Jesus hacked to provide a tunnel to the outside world. Wandering the streets of Brussels, Ea first enlists a homeless man, Victor, to be her scribe, since she cannot write well, and then begins to find her six apostles to narrate their own life stories for the Testament.

The first apostle is a reclusive woman who lost her left arm in an accident and feels nobody will love her. The second is a man who hates his work and his life, and has decided to never move from a bench in the park now that he knows the date of his death. Ea translates to allow him to converse with a bird. This induces him to follow a flock of birds to the North Pole. The third apostle is a sexually frustrated man who is awkward with women and remains lovesick for a German girl he met once as a boy. With Ea's encouragement, he becomes a voice actor for porn movies, where he encounters and establishes a relationship with his lifelong fixation. The fourth apostle is a man who is fascinated with death and killing. He purchases a rifle and shoots people knowing that, since all death dates are already predetermined, they cannot be his responsibility. Ea prods him to shoot a woman, the first apostle. When she doesn't die, because he hit her in her prosthetic arm, he believes this to be a divine signal, starts a relationship with her, and learns to embrace life instead of death. The fifth apostle is an elderly woman trapped in a loveless marriage, especially now that her husband knows he will outlive her by many years. Ea persuades her to cheat on her husband. She has sex with a young male prostitute, and then forms a love relationship with a gorilla. The gorilla scares her husband away, to her delight. The sixth apostle is a sickly boy who, with only days left to live, decides to live them as a girl. Ea encourages him to live each day as the equivalent of one month.

God is horrified when he discovers what Ea has done and that he can no longer torment humans. Locked out of his computer, he is powerless. He leaves the apartment using the same route that ends in a laundry room, and in the real world he suffers all the mistreatment and frustrations he created for mankind. He is assaulted by everyone he meets. When he wants to go back, he finds that the tunnel to his apartment has disappeared and he is trapped on Earth powerless and alone. He takes shelter in a church, where his outrageous criticism of his son Jesus Christ provokes a charitable priest into beating him senseless and eventually gets him locked up with a group of illegal immigrants that are to be deported to Uzbekistan.

Ea and her apostles go to the seaside where hundreds of people have gathered to spend the last hours of their lives. An airplane approaches: it's carrying the group of immigrants, including God, under police escort, and is scheduled to crash onto the beach and kill everyone according to God's own previous programming. In the meantime, God's wife has realized that the number of apostles has grown to 18, her favorite number, enters her husband's office and cleans up. In the process, the computer restarts and now invites her to take control. The previously scheduled death dates are overruled. The airplane regains altitude and the world is reset under a flower-filled sky. Victor's Brand New Testament is published, becomes a bestseller, and catapults him out of hopeless poverty into a new life of fame and fortune. God reaches Uzbekistan where he is put to work on an assembly line manufacturing washing machines. He frantically checks each washing machine if maybe it has an escape hatch that will take him back to his apartment.

Cast

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Reception

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The Brand New Testament received generally favorable reviews from film critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 82%, based on 74 reviews with an average rating of 7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Brand New Testament takes a surreal, subversive, and funny look at Biblical themes through a modern — and refreshingly original — lens."[9] At Metacritic, the film received an average score of 70 out of 100, based on 17 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[10]

Accolades

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Award / Film Festival Category Recipient(s) Result
Austin Film Critics Association[11][12] Best Foreign Language Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
Belgian Film Critics Association[13] Best Film The Brand New Testament Won
Biografilm Festival[14] Europa Audience Award The Brand New Testament Won
Guerrilla Award for Best Film The Brand New Testament Won
Cannes Film Festival[15] Art Cinema Award The Brand New Testament Nominated
Europa Cinemas Label Award The Brand New Testament Nominated
SACD Prize The Brand New Testament Nominated
César Awards[16] Best Foreign Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
David di Donatello[17] Best European Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
European Film Awards[18] Best European Comedy The Brand New Testament Nominated
Best Production Designer Sylvie Olivé Won
European Film Awards[19] People's Choice Award for Best European Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
European Film Festival Palić[20] Best Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
Fantastic Fest[21] Best Comedy The Brand New Testament Won
Filmfest Hamburg[22] Art Cinema Award The Brand New Testament Nominated
Francophone Film Awards[23] Best Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
Best Screenplay Jaco Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig Won
Best Actor Benoît Poelvoorde Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Yolande Moreau Nominated
Golden Globe Awards[24] Best Foreign Language Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
Gopo Awards[25] Best European Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
Haifa International Film Festival[26] Best International Film The Brand New Testament Won
Carmel Award The Brand New Testament Nominated
Lumières Awards[27] Best French-Language Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
Luxembourg Film Awards[28] Best Film in Coproduction The Brand New Testament Won
Best Technical Achievement Marco Lorenzini Nominated
Magritte Awards[7] Best Film The Brand New Testament Won
Best Director Jaco Van Dormael Won
Best Screenplay Jaco Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig Won
Best Supporting Actress Yolande Moreau Nominated
Best Supporting Actor David Murgia Nominated
Most Promising Actress Pili Groyne Nominated
Most Promising Actor Romain Gelin Nominated
Best Cinematography Christophe Beaucarne Nominated
Best Sound François Dumont, Michel Schillings and Dominique Warnier Nominated
Best Original Score An Pierlé Won
Méliès d'Or[29] Best European Fantastic Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
Norwegian International Film Festival[30] Audience Award The Brand New Testament Won
Special Jury Prize The Brand New Testament Won
Palm Springs International Film Festival[31] Best Narrative Feature The Brand New Testament Runner-up
Satellite Awards[32] Best Foreign Language Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
Sergio Amidei Award[33] Best Screenplay Jaco Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig Nominated
Sitges Film Festival[34] Best Film The Brand New Testament Nominated
Best Actress Pili Groyne Won
Best European Fantastic Film The Brand New Testament Won
Tallgrass Film Festival[35] Outstanding Narrative Feature The Brand New Testament Won
Trailers FilmFest[36] Best European Trailer The Brand New Testament Won

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Le Tout Nouveau Testament". JP's Box-Office.
  2. ^ "Le tout nouveau testament". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  3. ^ Chang, Justin (21 April 2015). "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight Unveils 2015 Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  4. ^ Keslassy, Elsa (22 September 2015). "Belgium Sends 'The Brand New Testament' To Foreign-Language Oscar Race". Variety. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  5. ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Advance In Oscar Race". Oscars. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  6. ^ Kilday, Gregg (17 December 2015). "Oscars: Nine Titles Advance in Foreign Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  7. ^ a b Moury, Gaëlle; Bradfer, Fabienne (7 February 2016). "Jaco Van Dormael et la Flandre se distinguent aux Magritte du cinéma". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  8. ^ Wise, Damon (16 May 2016). "New Talent Emerges From Belgian Cinema Scene".
  9. ^ "The Brand New Testament (Le tout nouveau testament) (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  10. ^ "The Brand New Testament Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  11. ^ Anderson, Erik (15 December 2016). "Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations: The Handmaiden Lands Top Mentions, Trevante Rhodes Double Nominated". AwardsWatch.com. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  12. ^ Miller, Neil (15 December 2016). "2016 Austin Film Critics Awards Nominees, 'Moonlight' and 'Arrival' lead the way in AFCA's 2016 nominations". Medium.com. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  13. ^ De Clercq, Charles (18 December 2015). "La présélection de l'UCC et le prix Cavens". Cinécure (in French). Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  14. ^ "Biografilm 2015, tutti i vincitori" (in Italian). Mymovies.it. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  15. ^ "Récompenses et nominations pour le film Le Tout Nouveau Testament" (in French). AlloCiné. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  16. ^ Keslassy, Elsa (27 January 2016). "'Golden Years,' 'Marguerite,' 'Dheepan,' 'Mustang' Lead Cesar Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  17. ^ Lombardi, Letizia Lara (22 March 2016). "David di Donatello 2016, ecco tutte le nomination". Best Movie. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  18. ^ Lodge, Guy (7 November 2015). "'Youth,' 'The Lobster' Lead European Film Award Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  19. ^ "The EFA opens vote for the People's Choice Award". Cineuropa. 1 September 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  20. ^ "European Film Festival Palić to include the world premiere of Veiko Õunpuu's Roukli". Cineuropa. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  21. ^ "The Brand New Testament wins Best Comedy at the Austin Fantastic Fest". Wallonie-Bruxelles Images. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  22. ^ "The Brand New Testament". Filmfest Hamburg. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  23. ^ "4ème édition des Trophées Francophones du Cinéma". Afiavi. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  24. ^ Lang, Brent (10 December 2015). "'Carol,' Netflix Lead Golden Globes Nomination". Variety. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  25. ^ Iulia, Blaga (24 February 2016). "Aferim! Leads Gopo Awards Nods". Film New Europe. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
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