The Gospel According to St. Matthew(Il Vangelo secondo Matteo)
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy/France, 1964, Italian, 137mins, DCP
Cast: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini
Hailed as one of the best films ever made about Christ, Pasolini's reinterpreted classic is a powerful vision from the perspective of a non-orthodox believer. Shot without a script, the life of Christ is told with stark simplicity, quoting faithfully from the Gospel throughout. Charged with a visual style owing to Renaissance and Byzantine art, the tableaux yield a restrained depiction of the miracles and the Crucifixion, while its dreamlike montage and close-ups achieve a modernity. Portraying Christ in his divinity, his humanity and even as a radical, Pasolini combines the revolutionary and the reverential that seems like his Catholic-Marxist statement.
Venice Film Festival: Special Jury Prize
20/11 (Sun): Film talk with Matthew Cheng
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
CINE FAN ONLINE
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction