A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
Acting
Goldblum's messianic glow-up is pure unhinged charisma
Writing
Bizarre premise executed with surprising tenderness
Direction
Ben Lewin's gentle hand keeps chaos from collapsing
Director
Ben Lewin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ben Lewin, a polio survivor, would later make The Sessions (2012)—this was his only 90s feature before a 20-year gap.
The film adapts Marcel Aymé's 1929 story 'The passerby from San Antonio,' relocating it to modern Paris with porno industry commentary.
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