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A biblical epic that only the Marxist dissident Pier Paolo Pasolini could make. Celebrated by both art-house audiences and religious groups, this intensely faithful adaptation of Saint Matthew’s Gospel cuts past dogma and ventures straight to the core of Jesus’s radical humanism.The Gospel According to St Matthew (Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964, 137mins).
Join us this Easter season for a biblical epic that only the Marxist dissident Pier Paolo Pasolini could make. This intensely faithful adaptation of Saint Matthew’s Gospel depicts the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, whose unwavering compassion for the poor and defiant condemnation of moral hypocrisy make him a perhaps unexpected embodiment of the director’s own worldview. The use of non-actors was, in particular, essential to the project, forsaking mythic grandeur in favor of a depiction that emphasizes the political radicalism of Christ’s life, with a visual style that drew from cinéma vérité and Renaissance painting alike. Stunningly shot amid the timeless landscapes of southern Italy and set to a soundtrack that encompasses everything from Bach to Black spirituals. The result is a defining masterpiece of Italian neorealist film that drew praise from doctrinaire Marxists and the Vatican.
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