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...Gospel and the Gore David Van Biema's viewpoint "Why It's So Bloody," on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ [March 1], stated that the movie's brutal imagery is more attuned to the religious spirit of the Middle Ages than to today's Christianity. But the point of the movie is to remind Christians?and proclaim to non-Christians?that Jesus, in his humanity, suffered terribly in order to be offered up as the perfect sacrifice. There is no way to portray this other than in graphic detail. Many of today's Christians want to worship...
Most of the cast is skilled enough to skirt their characters’ inane dialogue and befuddling motivations to offer their audience enlightenment, or at least entertainment. Standouts include Bartel, who plays her bratty-teen role with enough passion to be believable, but with enough restraint to engage audience sympathy; Julia E. B. Morton ’07, who sold me on the inner humanity of her haughty aristocrat; and Smith A. Legba Nazaire, who plays a couple of taciturn authority figures with spontaneity and splendid physicality...
...frank, and when to be droll—and by so demonstrating that he knows how his character’s mind worked, he makes his emotionlessness believable. Zackheim is less lucky; his deeply disturbed characterization shades into Keanu-like detachment even at his moments of greatest passion. Meanwhile, Fleisig-Green swings back and forth between this aggressive flatness and an equally aggressive style of scenery-chewing. At one point, while berating Bartel, she takes the gum out of Bartel’s mouth and sticks it in her own; it’s that kind of showboating role...
...soul-music fans and leg men, TINA TURNER is already a goddess. But ISMAIL MERCHANT'S casting of Turner as a Hindu deity in his upcoming film The Goddess has outraged some British Hindus, who plan to picket the movie. (Did they learn nothing from protests against The Passion of the Christ, which did not exactly dent ticket sales?) Having Turner play Shakti--the personification of a female divinity who wears a necklace of men's skulls--reduces the goddess to a "musical joke," says a Hindu group. Of course, some who saw Turner's last try at a dramatic...
...teacher, lavished praise on his lyrical style and rhythmic lines, and elevated him to the status of a Renaissance icon - Botticelli. Now master and student share the spotlight at Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, allowing art lovers to make their own assessment of who was the greater. "Botticelli and Filippino: Passion and Grace in Fifteenth Century Florentine Painting" (through July 11) is the evolution of a smaller show held at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris earlier this year, enriched with 13 more works by Botticelli and a whole new section on Filippino Lippi. Although it's Botticelli...