i like the first 20 minutes of movie.it's fun to watch the concept of sufferings of human beings and how those are relating to the sadistic tendency of god, also scenes which show people and their death time.but the scenes of Catherine Deneuve and gorilla is utter idiotic.and something at the last which tells on transsexual, gay, casual sex ...stuffs are unnecessary for this movie.the movie clearly supports the viewpoints of liberals and their trash ideas at the end all liberals give a standing ovation.

I liked this movie because it handles very well a main plot that provoques its audience, by merging it with a naif perspective. It's full of surreal moments that makes the movie look very playful, and it combines comedy and fantasy with a very solid drama. The characters are also very well built -I particularly liked the annoying god-. I like how the plot inquires about the conformism and insanity of society in everyday life, and how they unleash absurd (and still not meaningless) ways of solving each particular problem. It leaves you reflecting with a pleasant sensation. I think for some people it may turn out to be a cheap surrealism at times, but it is not a movie that should be taken very seriously either. Either way, it is very entertaining and enjoyable to watch.

Jaco Van Dormael is a special director : only four movies within 25 years, all good and all original. This one is a comedy and it's very funny despite many dark moments. The force of this movie comes from the possibility of multiple readings. Many other movies don't succeed to represent god in comedy (Let there be light, Bruce almighty., two of a kind, Clah of Titans...). The repetitive narrative structure is the only - minor - weakness but it's so important because each six segment has it own specificity. The casting is excellent specially Benoit Poelvorde as God and Yollande Moreau as his wife (a silent role). Despite all this, the film was a failure at the box-office everywhere.

Brand New Testament: Durban International Film Festival Belgium: 2015 Review by Dr Deena PadayacheeI think that most of us have wondered about the All Mighty (plural?) that plays with our lives and creates havoc everywhere. I've often thought about those brilliant Germans who created such gorgeous classical music, who tend to be so organised and are so efficient and manufacture such exceptional machinery, yet allowed a Hitler to rule them and eviscerate them.Anyway, this is a delightful, rather human depiction of a 'God' who plays on the computer with people's lives. It is this 'God' that ensures that the phone rings when we are in the shower, that the jam bread tends to fall on the jam side on the floor and so on. :) 'God' is middle aged, has a mouse of a wife, (who is for ever vacuuming), and a little spunky daughter, Ea, who, in true earthling fashion, questions everything. 'God' is a rather grouchy old man who bullies his family and even beats the daughter. 'JC' is the the girl's brother. We all know about his fate. Ea lets the the people of the planet know of their time of demise - via sms, nogaal! Most of the people depicted are white. Imagine exiting this divine abode via a washing machine! 'God' actually gets hungry, and gets ill, eating from rubbish bins! Ea sabotages the computer and escapes - and writes a new testament while recruiting a motley crew of six apostles. They include an abandoned house wife, a sex maniac, a serial killer, a beauty who has lost her arm and so on. There is much that happens in life that one should question, examine and even refute and sometimes lampoon. I am glad that there are human beings still willing to do so, and others who are not offended when some do so.