Word: pasolinis
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...contradiction in terms: a truly faithful Biblical film made by a Communist, namely Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who employs only nonprofessional actors and uses a script based entirely on Holy Writ...
...GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. A rare Biblical film, made with nonprofessional actors and a script based wholly on Scripture, this modest, unassuming drama on the life of Christ is the work of Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist...
...rare Biblical film, made with nonprofessional actors and a script based wholly on Scripture, this modest, unassuming drama on the life of Christ is by Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist...
...GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. An Italian Communist, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, vividly re-creates the world and work of Christ with a cast of non-professional actors, a script taken line for line from Scripture, and a blessed absence of the usual conventions...
...Where Pasolini fails, and it is a substantial failure, is in the inability to match his vivid re-creation of a place and time with an equally fresh portrait of Jesus. Christ sheds the mantle of soulful martyr but still seems no more than a fierce embodiment of divine purpose, as stiff and one-dimensional as those who have gone before. The movie sags at the center, weighed down by interminable closeups and sermons. The sound track swells with passages from Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Webern, an African Mass and-as an odd counterpoint to the Nativity-Odetta's recording...