The life and passion of Jesus Christ drawn from the first book of the Bible by Pier Paolo Pasolini, told angrily and austerely in docu-style black and white, and features beautiful, exterior photography. Remarkable also for being the work of a controversial Marxist filmmaker, this rendering reminded me of the severeness and the expressive closeups of Dreyer's Passion of Joan Arc and surely served as inspiration for latter biblical treatments.
*** 1/2 out of ****
