There is a god. He lives in Brussels. He is nasty to his wife and his daughter, Ea, who watches him mercilessly amuse himself torturing people. Unable to take it anymore, she decides, with help from her brother JC, to disrupt her father’s twisted plans. Ea infiltrates God’s computer to publicize the date each person will die and runs away to be among the humans. But while she goes in search of six apostles, her father is hot on her trail…

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The spectacular failure of 2009’s Mr. Nobody, the ambitious but unloved romantic sci-fi movie starring Jared Leto, probably put a damper on the career of Jaco van Dormael, hailed in 1996 for The Eighth Day. Luckily the Belgian director has still got his imagination: The Brand New Testament is his great comeback, thanks also to Benoit Poelvoorde and an excellent premise – the audience doesn’t see most of it coming. The result is riotous, absurd, funny, bizarre, unclassifiable, unpredictable, touching, ridiculous but a definite must for lovers of comedies that aren’t ordinary. There are a few tasteless moments and some elements that are (too) slow, but this cinematic jumble offers Catherine Deneuve and François Damiens two great secondary roles and is in sum a hilariously funny movie that can be highly recommended.