The Son of Joseph
Event
Vincent, a fifteen-year-old teenager, was lovingly raised by his mother, who always refused to reveal his father's name. Vincent then begins to search and discovers that his father is a Parisian, selfish and cynical publsiher, Oscar Pormenor. Vincent does not accept it. The painting that fills an entire wall in his room - a reproduction of Caravaggio's The Sacrifice of Isaac - inspires him do devise a plan of revenge, but it is in that moment that the encounter with Joseph will change both his life and that of his mother. Eugène Green's sixth feature film combines all the virtues of Green’s cinema - rigorous and "self-conscious" staging, classic erudition declined with "mystery", a hidden sense of humour that runs through and transfigures - in a story that begins in Paris, in the midst of "intellectuals" and "literary critics" (usual target of Green's harsh criticism), and ends by the coastline, in a bizarre (but as delicate as fun) evocation of the Nativity.
