Director: Pascale Bailly
Country: France
Year: 2002
Runtime: 100 minutes
French with English Subtitles
The luminous Audrey Tautou (star of Amélie, the biggest French film of 2001) here plays Michèle, a twenty-year-old model who fears her life is entering into a rut. Work is steady, and all her friends are loyal and supportive, but something seems to be missing. So she decides to give Buddhism a try; it feels fine, but still is incapable of stemming the rage she feels against her mother and mother's boyfriend. She meets François, a decidedly secular Jew, and thinks perhaps he holds the answer to what ails her. Soon, she's nailing mezuzahs to doorposts and dragging him to religion classes - and meeting his parents. GOD IS GREAT, I'M NOT is a wonderful example of a kind of comedy at which the French are especially skilled, in which a character's madcap energies increasingly take on darker tones. Pascale Bailly's debut feature offers a provocative portrait of a generation whose search for answers seems overwhelmed by the possibilities available to it. (Synopsis by the Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theatre - Rendezvous with French Cinema series)
Principal Cast: Audrey Tatou, Edouard Baer, Julie Depardieu, Catherine Jacob, Philippe Laudenbach
Producer: Georges Benayoun
Writers: Pascale Bailly and Alain Tasma
Music: Stéphane Malca
Cinematography: Antoine Roch
Website Link: http://www.marsfilms.com/dieu/