After making many short films and documentaries, French director Bruno Dumont burst onto the feature film scene with his first full-length movie,
The Life of Jesus
in 1996, which won several awards, including a Special Mention Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. This book, in Dis Voir's
Cinema Script
series, includes the novel, which was used as the basis for the film script, as well as extensive film stills.