twodeadmagpies
24Dec11
especially that of giorgio agamben as philip! ♥♥♥
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Francisco R.
25Apr12
Pasolini sure has a way to speak his mind. This Jesus Christ won't put up with any of your crap mister!!
Hunter Duesing
28Mar12
While I prefer the passionate takes on Jesus from Martin Scorsese and Mel Gibson, Pasolini's take on the Gospel of St Matthew is a beautiful, straightforward telling that captures His teachings with brevity and grace. Enrique Irazoqui's Jesus is more stern and far less tortured than other screen incarnations. The origins of this film are even more fascinating given Pasolini's beliefs and how he came to make this film
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Derriere Garde
25Dec11
I don't know about unibrow Jesus, but the big man certainly wasn't aiming low when he went for Mary.
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Joel
20Oct11
Having grown up in the church I rarely see a biblically themed film that does anything close to moving me. Yet watching this film was like hearing the words afresh. Simplicity can create such powerful truths! Why doesn't America believe this! A powerful quiet still picture full of profundities. If only the dvd I bought didn't have a restored color edited version and an awful full-length original.
Myles O'Mara
5Aug11
There were segments in this film that portrayed the gospel better than having read it. Although I haven't read the gospel in a few years, the argument between Jesus and the Priests after John the Baptist was beheaded was particularly presentational of a humane Christ, and great orator.
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Sean Keeley
22Apr11
A movie I like more in concept than in execution. I admire Pasolini's idea of a neorealist approach to the story of Christ, and one that portrays Jesus as a revolutionary, but too often the results feel haphazard, sloppy, even lazy. For me, the film never attained the emotional heights that so many of its fans claim for it. Given its reputation, though, I'm willing to believe I'm just missing something.
chris naughton
28Dec10
Watched on 24th - forgot how much I love Pasolini. Great use of music. Great succinctness of style to express the experience a new consciousness in the world. Love how the camera is a bystander after Holy Thursday. So, was Jesus a beautiful dreamer or really the God? We need to know the answer and its amazing how Pasolini's film genuinely asks the question. Not an easy question to ask clearly or w/out bias.
All Is Grace
30Jul10
When a Marxist poet makes a film about the life of Jesus Christ, Jesus becomes a revolutionist and even the religious superstitions turn into poetry; The result is a masterpiece. Totally better than that non sense pornography of Mel Gibson.
richmondhill
23Feb10
Told with simplicity and quiet grace, this is a wonderful antidote to the de Mille tub-thumping or grandiose religious epics of the time, paring the Christ story down to a focused, neorealist reading. One of Pasolini's finest and probably a good starting place for his oeuvre.
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Larval Pink
5Feb10
First of all, i'll start by stating that i'm an atheist. and, secondly, despite the previously mentioned fact, there were moments in this film so sublime and hauntingly beautiful that they touched me to tears--literally.
Pierluigi Puccini
31Dec08
The controversial Pier Paolo Pasolini retells the life of Jesus Christ in a much more honest way than many of the "socially accepted" filmmakers who tried to do the same. Told in neorrealist key, without embellishment nor grandiloquence, and that's where the beauty and the greatness of the film comes, from its natural feel and simplicity.