La vie de Jésus

Freddy Fred lives with his mother, Yvette, in Bailleul. She runs the café, "Au Petit Casino". Treated at the Bailleul specialized hospital for epileptic fits, Fred spends most of his time vegetating with his pals. They're not even twenty, rural, relatively uneducated, unemployed and hanging around all day long on their motorbikes. Fred has a girlfriend, the beautiful Marie, who works as a checkout girl an a giant supermarket. They often make love at Fred's home without his mother saying anything about it. Several times a day, Fred and his pals go shopping in town and in the country on their motorbikes and invent tests of strength. Although he's not clever, Fred is nice. A simple boy, a country boy. He often gives rise to pity, although one can sense developing in him an energy, a power in his look, his strange postures, his words, his attitudes... It is through this chronicle of the life of Fred that emerges a story that is to slowly unfurl as a drama...

Director and screenplay: Bruno Dumont.
Director of photography: Philippe Van Leeuw.
Art director: Frédérique Suchet.
Costume designer: Nathalie Raoul, Isabelle Sanchez.
Editor: Guy Lecorne, Yves Deschamps.
Music: Richard Cuvillier.
Sound: Eric Rophe, Matthieu Imbert, Olivier de Nesles.
Cast and characters: David Douche (Freddy), Marjorie Cottreel (Marie), Geneviève Cottreel (Yvette), Kader Chaatouf (Kader), Sébastien Delbaere (Gégé).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: 3B Productions, 70 rue dAssas, 75006 Paris, France, tel. +33145484475, fax +33145491785 CRRAV Norfilms.
Italian distribution: BIM Distribuzione, via degli Scipioni 295, 00192 Roma, Italy, tel. +3906-3231057, fax +3906-3220096.