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    The Gospel According to St. Matthew

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    This 1964 masterwork was dedicated to Pope John XXIII as it was partly financed by the R. C. Church. Pier-Paolo Pasolini's remarkable film is a modern interpretation of Christ told chiefly through the gospel of Saint Matthew. Using non-professionalas as his leads and filmed in a realistic pseudo-documentary style in the arid regions of Calabria in Southern Italy, the film depicts Christ as a man of the people, almost a revolutionary, fighting for social injustice of the time. Despite the faithful use of the scriptures, the film is imbued with Pasolini's Marxist ideology which tended to produce some confusion within the Church and other corners. In Pasolini's film, he never uses the term SAINT Matthew, but it was added later by film distributors. An experience like no other.

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    pietroantoni@  7.10.2015 age: 36-49 14,551 reviews

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