1999 · drama · addiction
Jesus' Son
Directed by Alison Maclean1h 47m1999
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Our read: Jesus' Son (1999) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · addiction entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / addiction, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intimate
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How Jesus' Son feels to watch.
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“You want episodic junkie poetry with dark humor and fragile grace.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if heroin chaos, needles, and grim accidents will wreck tonight.
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