The Jesus Rolls
- gentle
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.
Our read · The Jesus Rolls (2019) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · crime · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Jesus Rolls
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a loose picaresque road comedy of sex, crime and misfit wanderers.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if episodic plotting and constant sex and nudity will frustrate you.
The reading.
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