So, God exists. He lives in Brussels in a cramped, tatty apartment. He wears a string undershirt and slippers and behaves like a petty tyrant toward his wife. And while we might have heard of his son, who in this reading seems to have defied His will by walking among the people and getting himself killed for his troubles, we probably know less about Ea, his daughter. But it is Ea who is the narrator and heroine of Jaco Van Dormael's, silly, sweet-natured and stylish alternate theology comedy "The Brand New Testament." And at ten years of age, Ea wants to set the world, which her mean-spirited father regards as his own personal playset, to rights.
With apple-cheeked but deadpan precociousness, Ea (played by delightful newcomer Pili Groyne, last seen as one of Marion Cotillard's kids in "Two Days One Night") begins by recounting the Genesis story, but from this uniquely skewed, Belgian-centric perspective. And from the off, Van Dormael, along with...
