Product Details

• Actors: Audrey Tautou, Edouard Baer, Julie Depardieu, Catherine Jacob, Philippe Laudenbach
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Surround Sound, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: KOCH LORBER FILMS
• DVD Release Date: May 11, 2004
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001I54QQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,516 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "God Is Great and I'm Not" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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GOD IS GREAT AND I'M NOT - DVD Movie

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars God IS Great....But This is only So-So, September 7, 2004

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V. Marshall (North Fork, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: God Is Great and I'm Not (DVD)

This is a simple yet complex French film about relationships and finding a faith that one can stick to.

The incomparable Audrey Tautou stars in this lightly serious film and portrays a young model who is struggling with her faith, both in herself and with God. Her relationship with a man has ended and she suffers from a broken heart and a lost soul when she meets a handsome veterinarian (played by Edouard Baer) and begins the quest of falling back in love with something. She stars out a semi-Buddhist and upon meeting Baer feels the need to show him his Jewish roots, convincing him they should become a couple of practicing Jews, before they get married, by taking classes with a local Rabbi. It is an interesting look at how easily faith can be lost and found depending on one's self worth and life circumstances.

This little film is fun to watch and has a very appealing content attached to it but I found myself irritated by the camera work, it jittered and moved around like a camcorder in the hands of an amateur. Audrey Tautou has that childlike grace that offers a camera such depth if it holds her in close-up for longer than a second but her beauty was lost in this project. Instead of being a deeply introspective character in search of something better than herself Tautou just races around flittering about in a camera lens unable to spotlight the message in this story. It could have been great with a little more focus!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I really liked it!, March 7, 2005

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Joseph Oppenheim (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: God Is Great and I'm Not (DVD)

In my opinion, there are two reasons to watch this film. One, because of Audrey Tautou, and two, if one looks at this as a Jewish genre film. If one has no interest in either, just pass on the film.

As for Tautou, even if the film just had her searching for the best flavor of Jello, it would be worth watching. There just are some actors who have such a screen presence, one could even turn off the sound and enjoy them. Audrey qualifies. She is just so cute and quirky.

As for a Jewish genre film, scholars do look for deeper reasons for the romantic attraction of Jews and non-Jews. This film takes a look at one such situation, and by doing so, makes one think deeper on the subject, if one is inclined to do so. As such, I do think the film shined, as it was interesting and entertaining to watch the couple's relationship unfold.

I really can't argue with a lot of the criticisms of "God is Great, I'm Not". But, for the above two reasons, I really liked it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Barely 3 Stars Thanks to Tautou's Charms (and Many Costumes), October 8, 2004

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Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: God Is Great and I'm Not (DVD)

Some call it a romantic comedy. For a romantic comedy, however, 'God Is Great, And I'm Not' sounds very strange, isn't it? Well, the contents of the film are not as strange as the title suggests, but the film itself is, I have to say, far from perfect. Not that it is not amusing. Just it feels like going on and on and on....

Now the story is about Michelle (played by lovely, adorable Audrey Tautou), who is in love with a vet Francois (about 10 years older). And the story is ... er, that's it. She is in love with him, and the script describes the various episodes concerning the love relations between the two characters over one year. It borrows the style of a diary presumably written by Michelle, who records every details about her love, her family, her jobs, and ... her love.

So, don't expect the traditional storytelling style. If you need a sense of closure for your film (like 'Happily Ever After' ending), you might as well skip this one and see 'Amelie' again. The relations between the two neither develops nor dissolves. It goes round and round, and perhaps that's the point.

I admit there are several interesting, and emotionally charged moments in the film. Still, it is very demanding to follow the endless 'story' and apparently superficial behaviours of the characters, that of Michelle in particular, but I think that is the film's intention. Michelle considers conversion simply because her Francois is Jewish (while Francois does not demand it, and is not a devoted believer of any religion himself). Michelle's actions are often superficial, or Michelle IS superficial, reading many books about religion.

OK, but what worries me constantly is, by just tracing Michelle and other characters's superficial behaviours, the film itself, which lacks the sure footing to observe them (fondly or detachedly), becomes superficial too. To make matters worse, director Pascale Bailly uses many irritating camera works trying to impress us, such as jump-cuts or voiceovers. Soemtimes the camera floats in the air, rotating to and fro when a more orthodox way of shooting is necessary. Do you need the 'French New Wave' school when you want to see a love romance? I don't think so.

THE ONLY CHARM of the film comes, not surprisingly, from Audrey Tautou. Her character is fashion model, and to justify the setting, she changes her clothes and hairstyles every time she appears on the screen. Even among the repetitous, ultimately boring series of episodes, she continues to enchant us with her acting, and that is nearly a miracle. But we had already seen the real miracle in 'Amelie,' and we need that kind of irresistible magic, which is based on the firm confidence in the time-honoured, orthodox, girl-meets-boy love story.