The Gospel According to St. Matthew / Il vangelo secondo Matteo (1964) [The Criterion Collection]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC 1920x1040, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 2hr 17mn | 4.38 GB
Italian: AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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.