In the charming but contention-riven country town of Brimlow, the eccentric artist Godfrey Johansson, haunted by failure and a sense of his own mortality, paints a version of the Last Supper as if through the eyes of Judas. With unerring punctuality the Devil appears by his side, declares himself to be a great defender of Christ, and speaks (it would seem) the truth about all manner of wondrous things. Truth from the mouth of the Devil? What on earth can that mean! And what will become of the hapless Godfrey Johansson? A ...
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In the charming but contention-riven country town of Brimlow, the eccentric artist Godfrey Johansson, haunted by failure and a sense of his own mortality, paints a version of the Last Supper as if through the eyes of Judas. With unerring punctuality the Devil appears by his side, declares himself to be a great defender of Christ, and speaks (it would seem) the truth about all manner of wondrous things. Truth from the mouth of the Devil? What on earth can that mean! And what will become of the hapless Godfrey Johansson? A meditation on the fate of the human in the modern world, The Brimlow Triptych tells the tragicomic story of a man's entanglement with evil and illusion.
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