The director is in Italy after having presented Killers Of The Flower Moon at the Cannes Film Festival.
Martin Scorsese is on a post-Cannes tour of Italy, where over the weekend the director, known for his religious bent, met with the Pope Francisco and announced that he will make a film about Jesus.
“I have responded to the Pope’s call to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a script for a film about Jesus”, Scorsese announced Saturday during a conference in Rome at the Vatican, according to multiple reports. “And I’m about to start making it,” added the director, suggesting that this could be his next film.
Also on Saturday, before attending the conference, titled “The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination,” Scorsese and his wife Helen Morris They met with Pope Francis during a brief private audience at the Vatican.
The conference was organized by the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown University. Antonio Spadaro, editor of the religious newspaper, told the publication’s website that during their conversation in the collusion, Scorsese alternated between references to his films and personal anecdotes, explaining “how he was moved by the Holy Father’s call ‘for us to see Jesus'”. he said.
What did Scorsese and Francisco talk about?
Regarding the cinematographic references, during the conversation Scorsese mentioned his admiration for “The Gospel according to Saint Matthew” of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Scorsese also spoke about the meaning of his own 1988 epic. “The Last Temptation of Christ” and of the “further step in his investigation into the figure of Jesus” represented by his 2016 smaller-scale drama “Silence” about the persecution of Christian Jesuits. in seventeenth-century Japan. That film was screened in 2016 at the Vatican. Francisco He is the first Jesuit pope and is known to have joined the Jesuit order in hopes of becoming a missionary to Japan.
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