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1964 |
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DRAMA
FOREIGN
BIOPIC
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| Origin: |
Italy/ France |
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142 |
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The story of Christ in the words of the Gospel itself.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| Desperately slow, soporific exercise in cinematic "realism", much acclaimed on release - probably because its gritty, documentary style departed so completely from hokey, Hollywood treatments of the same story. Pasolini's Marxism diminishes Christ by trying to portray him as a revolutionary, motivated primarily by fury at social injustices; and the acting by non-professionals is variable. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice, 1964. |
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(pictured)