Blu-ray
The gospel according to Matthew = Il vangelo secondo Matteo
Call Number
- BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Languages
In Italian, with English subtitles.
Performers
Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Mario Socrate, Alfonso Gatto, Paola Tedesco.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (137 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Added Uniform Title
Summary
"One of the most original and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, Italian polymath Pier Paolo Pasolini embodied a multitude of often seemingly contradictory ideologies and identities--and he expressed them all in his provocative, lyrical, and indelible films. Relentlessly concerned with society's downtrodden and marginalized, he elevated pimps, hustlers, sex workers, and vagabonds to the realm of saints, while depicting actual saints with a radical earthiness. Traversing the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the modern, the mythic and the personal, the nine uncompromising, often scandal-inciting features he made in the 1960s still stand--on this, the 101st anniversary of his birth--as a monument to his daring vision of cinema as a form of resistance."--Set container.
"A biblical epic that only the Marxist dissident Pier Paolo Pasolini could make, this intensely faithful adaptation of Saint Matthew's Gospel depicts the life and teachings of Jesus Christ (Enrique Irazoqui, a Spanish economics student and Communist activist), whose unwavering compassion for the poor and defiant condemnation of moral hypocrisy make him a perhaps unexpected embodiment of the director's own worldview. Stunningly shot amid the timeless landscapes of southern Italy and set to a soundtrack that encompasses everything from Bach to Black spirituals, The Gospel According to Matthew cuts past dogma and straight to the core of Jesus's radical humanism."--Publisher's website.
Notes
Based on the Gospel of Matthew.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
This disc was released as part of the Criterion Collection box set Pasolini 101.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; Scouting in Palestine, a documentary of Pasolini's 1963 travels to Palestine to find locations for The gospel according to Matthew ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation.