Tries our patience until we fall into sync with its rhythm and surrender ourselves to its images, which are quite lovely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2021

Deliciously subversive as an austere allegorical stab at both religion and the vested importance of patrilineal familial relations, audiences familiar with the director will most likely find this surprisingly adroit in its ability to amuse.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 4, 2019

While I could point out other flaws in "Son of Joseph," the film won me over in the end. At the risk of sounding like Dr. Phil, it's a lesson in becoming a better person.

Full Review | Nov 24, 2018

Green is inviting us to watch, to listen, to slow down and pay attention, just as we would (or should) with any beautiful work of art before us.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 24, 2018

Absorbing family fable with biblical suggestions.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 19, 2018

Revenge is a purely cinematographic act... [director Eugène Green] characterizes his small-scale family vendetta film with a luminous lightness, but with powerful biblical resonances. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 29, 2018

A fine and refined style, full of cinematography and thought, open to interpretations and disagreements... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 29, 2017

The intelligent story makes the pluses outweigh the minuses in my mind.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 24, 2017

Surprisingly moving in a redemptive finale that pays homage to not just the Christmas story, but the French Resistance as well. And it does it with reverence and a sense of joy that's immaculate in its conception.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 24, 2017

The artificial acting style in this modern twist on the Nativity story may take some getting used to, but Green's puckish tweaking of the French literary set along with his moving take on paternity, make this one a charmer.

| Original Score: B | Mar 21, 2017

If "The Son of Joseph" believes fervently in the restorative properties of painting, music and architecture, it is no less sincere in its affirmation of the redemptive power of human relationships.

| Mar 16, 2017

Eugène Green began his career in Baroque theatre and opera, which may explain the odd, exaggerated manner of his movies. Many commentators have cited Wes Anderson...In truth, it's much droller than that comparison indicates.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2017

Sophisticated and precise, Green's film rescues the beauty, aesthetic and moral of the figures that make up the Holy Family. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 1, 2017

(Green's) work is so precise it might feel mathematical, but the effect is anything but, especially when open-faced actors like Rongione and Régnier are staring soulfully into the camera.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 17, 2017

[An] uproarious and touching coming-of-age farce.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 9, 2017

The Son of Joseph shows bemused conservatism in its challenge to the current period of social and political hostility that turns people against one other - as if we were all fatherless renegades.

| Jan 23, 2017

There's a lightness to Green's touch, and a gentle beauty to many of his images, that redeems its flaws and even courts the sublime.

| Jan 17, 2017

There's more obvious method behind Green's madness than the majority of directors currently working the art house/film festival circuit.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 17, 2017

Like all of Green's works, this film seeks to show the transcendence in everyday life through austere planning. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 16, 2017

"The Son of Joseph" is more accessible than usual - the gateway film you'd recommend to a Eugene Green newb, though it's no sell-out.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2017