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With a script based on Scripture and a cast of nonprofessional actors, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist, retells the life of Christ as an earthy social drama, happily avoiding the pretentious piety of most Bible epics...
...life of Christ in a fresh and fascinating film based wholly on Scripture and played as an act of faith by a nonprofessional cast under Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist...
...GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. The life of Christ in a fresh and fascinating film based wholly on Scripture and played like an act of faith by a non-professional cast under Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist...
...worst problem in Matthew was one which no film of Joan's era had to deal with--the sound track. Pasolini gambled again, trying to match the implicit emotional values of his music to those of his images. He has permitted himself to range from Bach to Mozart to Prokoviev to Odetta to the Missa Luba to Leadbelly. Running head-on against our various stock responses, he inevitably creates image-sound discords. For me such discords arose between the healing of a leper and a cotton-field blues moan, between the infant Jesus and Odetta's annoyingly mannered "Sometimes...
...somewhat pyrotechnical sequence in it, which some reviews have objected to. This is the Sermon on the Mount, which is abridged, but still of a length that could not be managed visually without some staging extravagance. The alternation of day and night, good weather and bad, is what Pasolini has directed, brilliantly, I think...