The Jesus lives! The oddball bowling obsessive immortalized by John Turturro in “The Big Lebowski” resurfaces two decades later in “The Jesus Rolls,” a road movie every bit as eccentric as the character he played in the 1998 cult favorite. In a way, the “Lebowski” connection does a disservice to Turturro’s film — an in-spirit spinoff, made with the Coen brothers’ blessing, but definitely not a sequel — since this uneven offbeater actually has less to do with the earlier Coen comedy than it does Bertrand Blier’s wildly antiestablishment 1974 foreign-film sensation “Going Places,” of which it is a more-than-loose (and much less commercial) remake. The movie is set to reach U.S. screens in early 2020, several months after opening in Italy, where it premiered as a pre-opening event for the Rome Film Festival.
and the very stereotypes from which the Jesus character was born. With his signature strut, hairnet-covered cornrows, purple-painted...
and the very stereotypes from which the Jesus character was born. With his signature strut, hairnet-covered cornrows, purple-painted...
- 10/17/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
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