Jesus Cries (2015) Online

„JESUS CRIES" is a very profound touching and concussive film with after-effect. For me, the passion narrative was an abstract story from the Bible, which one has no real meaning in my life ... because there was no point of contact to me. Transported in the presence with all these pictures of our „today", the film become disturbingly tangible, close and real. At times, however, it is almost too much to bear, because Jesus performer Sabin Tambrea suffers very realistic.

I think the time has come for a special kind of hope. And I admire Brigitte Maria Mayer that she has found a way to express also hope and kindly love in a film with a lot of violence and disturbing callousness.

It is certainly not a film that is just consumed and forgotten. Because of this „JESUS CRIES" is a very invaluable project. In my opinion, all the artists have created a work of art, which is touching very deep and reverberated. --- I'm sorry ... it would be much more easier for me, to write all these emotional words in German ... but it is an international database, and so I gave my best and hopefully you understand what I mean.

It's been a long time but today I went out of the Cinema and felt astonished. Brigitte Maria Mayer took something old and dusty and transformed it into something great. . She did put a Mirror up in front of our "Today" Faces and the Society. Visually stunning and overwhelming. I could feel the betrayal and Pain. Emely Cox and and Valerie Koch brought tears to my eyes. German Cinema in the last years, made it hard for me to like. Tonight I changed my mind a bit. There is still Art out there. We, the Germans, are able to fulfill something great.. It hit every single nerve and I feel stopped and forced be be surprised again. If you get the chance to watch it ....DO! . This piece of Art is wonderful. I hope you will see the same in it as I do.

I am crying out of anger about this pretentious stylish waste of time. Here you see the passion of Christ transferred – not so much in the contemporary or near suspected future but in the world of advertising film's aesthetic. Most of the actors look like being casted straight from the catwalk, performing most serious actions like they were posing for an ambitious shooting. The settings, the light - it's all about beauty shots (even Judas' hanging loop looks like a pastiche of the "Conjuring"-poster) mixed with scenes of violence supposed to be graphic (yes, it hurts, when a nail is hammered through your palm, so what?) and to appear political (with a few suits and ties the Sanhedrin is turned - guess what? - into a bunch of bankers. Isn't that one of the most obvious antisemitic clichés by the way? - Put a black bag over Jesus' head and kick him in a tiled basement - there you go Abu-Ghuraib, but why?). There is not a single interesting idea to be found here - except maybe the question: What did Lazarus do, when he heard that his Saviour couldn't save himself? Meanwhile the story is mostly sticking to the biblical template it's mounted with found footage of various street riots all over the world (but obviously NOT in the world the film is actually showing). What is supposed to illustrate the world wide crisis, the gap between the few riches and the poor majority Jesus came to solve, is just illustrating the gap between provincial longing for meaningful artistic action and media's reflection of the reality. In short: this seems to me the worst example of misled ambition, maybe since Mel Gibson idea to take a long lens shot through the stigmata's hole of resurrected Christ in his own passion.