Film · 1979 · Religious satire
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Directed by Terry Jones
1979
United Kingdom
★ 7.7 editorial score
Councils across Britain banned it and Norway would not show it at all: the Pythons went after zealotry rather than faith, which is exactly why it still works.
“"Monty Python's Life of Brian" succeeds in sending up not only movies like "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "King of Kings," but also a lot of the false piety attached to the source material. It is the foulest-spoken bibical epic ever made, as well as the best-humored — a nonstop orgy of assaults, not on anyone's virtue, but on the funny bone.”
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