The best kind of review for this movie. Mel's marketing campaign- or lack thereof- has been exactly right:
select showings of final or rough cut to folks who are less inclined to turn up their noses at its rawness. Mel understands- Those Who Should Get Will Get It. Those Who Won't Don't- Above Author, Frank Rich, etc. Will hit an increasingly stagnant movie scene- even the Sundance Festival is way too establishment and careerist- like your average nuclear missile next month. And most in Park City Utah would turn up noses at it for sure.
"I just don't think it's very well done. I think if someone wants to get into some interesting cinematic treatments, they should go see "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" by Passolini."
Pasolini?
From the Allmovie.com review of Pasolini's film:
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Gospel According to St. Matthew pulls off the not inconsiderable trick of imbuing the familiar Biblical story with Pasolini's own special brand of Marxism...Christ and his followers are depicted as gentle radicals working against the grain of the unjust Roman power structure—and despite this flirtation with charges of blasphemy, the film is more spiritually faithful to the writings of St. Matthew than most "straight" approaches to the material. Typically offbeat Pasolini touches include having Satan disguise himself as a Catholic priest, and the casting of the director's own mother as the Virgin Mary.
His preferences speak volumes.
best regards,
That fellow is the sort of Episcopalian would would say nice things about National Socialism if he thought the culture wanted him to. His assessment of the film is as good a demonstration as you will ever find why so many of us are fleeing the ECUSA these days.
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