What happens to the people putting on a Passion Play? Someday Mel Gibson may tell us, but Denys Arcand’s Jesus of Montreal proposes an engaging possibility. In hip present-day Montreal, a group of actors stages the Passion in an outdoor, somewhat avant-garde style, led by the quietly charismatic and increasingly uncanny young man (Lothaire Bluteau, [...]
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Much like THE CRUCIBLE, this riveting drama tells the right tale of the last gasp of the notorious witch hunts in Czechoslovakia. A unfeeling inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. The inquisitor targets nobles and merchants, whose property and [...]
Italian master Ermanno Olmi (Tree of the Wooden Clogs)recreates the Journey of the Magi in this unique interpretation of one of the Bible’s most beloved tales. And, even if the tale is traditional, Olmi’s telling of it is inspired and fresh. When one of the Magi sees a comet streak across the sky, he interprets [...]
This is the tale of a man named Dharma and his remarkable spiritual journey to China. Dharma was the third prince in the Kingdom of Hiong Chi in India. A potential successor to the throne, Dharma devoted himself to Buddhism rather than inherit his family’s kingdom. Later on, Dharma went to China to spread the [...]
