"Prior to making Dog Days (Hundstage), released here in 2002, film-maker Ulrich Seidl built an international reputation with a series of distinctive and original documentaries exploring intimate aspects of people’s lives. In Jesus, You Know he follows six believers into the sanctity of the church, and with their permission films their individual conversations with Jesus. Sometimes beginning as prayers, but frequently turning into confessions, these normally private portraits are deeply revealing. Whilst demographically dissimilar, the worshippers seem united by loneliness and sadness – a young woman trying to work out her relationship difficulties; a young man troubled by the eroticism he finds in the Bible; an older woman sounding stoic but clearly worn down by her husband and family. But as always, Seidl finds the humour in the material and his subjects too, in their contradictions and in their juxtaposing of the seemingly banal with the fundamentally significant. This is direct and daring film-making, all the more so because of its quiet and unforced tone. That Seidl is shaping the material there is of course no doubt; his skill is in doing so without seeming to intrude – always present, never seen, and in that respect nicely attuned with his subject."
You'll all be lining up to see that one, won't you! I can't wait for the countless threads about it, including countless threads about the money take of this "product" (since you don't accept the industry reference "entertainment vehicle".) Oops, excuse me again, I should have said "the money take of the act of love"!