2019 · comedy · fantasy · parody
The First Temptation of Christ
Directed by Rodrigo Van Der Put46m2019
Jesus, who's hitting the big 3-0, brings a surprise guest to meet the family. A Christmas special so wrong it must be from comedians Porta dos Fundos.
Our read: The First Temptation of Christ (2019) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · fantasy · parody entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- cold
- intimate
Watching The First Temptation of Christ tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How The First Temptation of Christ feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want gleefully blasphemous Brazilian sketch comedy Christmas special.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if religious satire or irreverent Jesus stories offend or bore you.
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