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An independent director casts himself as Jesus Christ in his film. The actress playing Mary Magdalene travels alone to Jerusalem after the shoot to continue her spiritual journey inspired by her role....( read more 
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MCT:June 18, 2008
Lo impresionante de esta pelicula son sus maravillosas y creibles actuaciones, todas centradas que te hacen vivir la historia la primera hora de la cinta. Lo malo, es que predeciblemente el final cae en lo pretencioso.
Eso si, es de estas peliculas para las cuales hay que estar preparados emocionalmente. Sino, es un malviaje. -
MCT:January 4, 2008I kinda stumbled upon this movie, apparently being shown during the holiday season in Mexico.
I know Abel Ferrara's rep. with films like "Bad Lieutenant", "King of New York" and the horrible "New Rose Hotel"...but I can't say I either am a fan of the director, having only seen small parts of the above movies, nor do I hate Ferrara due to my limited exposure.
That said, I would like to check out his movies more, and when I read that "Mary" was directed by Ferrara, I certainly was intrigued. But also, I've spent some time reading about gnosticism, the gnostic gospels and Mary Magdalene, which I knew the movie had to at least touch on.
To provide a more complete synopsis: We have three principal characters: a film director (played by Modine) who is screening a film on the life of Christ and Mary M. called "This is my Blood"; the actress cast as Mary M. (Binoche) for the film; and then there's a talk show host (Whitaker) that centers the story around his tv show (dealing with different perspectives on Jesus) and his life troubles.
The movie uses the three characters to show three different perspectives on Christianity/religion: an a-religious director, an agnostic talk show host struggling to understand what he believes in, and a radically spiritual former actress. Binoche's character apparently had a spiritual awakening after completing the filming of "This is my Blood" and immediately disappeared in Israel for a year. Meanwhile in the year that follows, we have the film fresh from post-production, ready for screening, experiencing massive protests (parodying "The Last Temptation of Christ) and Modine's character being a cocky bastard (like someone else we know and "love"). And Whitaker puts out a great performance as a rather sleazy tv personality, that essentially will lie and steal to fulfill his wants...which also includes his pregnant wife (played by Heather Graham) who is due to give birth soon.
So we have a lot of different themes and parallels being put in here: faith vs. religion, "truth"/spirituality vs. orthodoxy, ancient Christian conflict vs. current middle east conflicts/racially motivated violence, egotism vs. humility, career vs. family, Ferrara vs. Mel Gibson. It's a lot to take in, and I can't say the script delivers it up in the most coherent fashion. So some folks will probably hate it for that. I was ok with it, actually I'd hoped Ferrara had made the film a bit longer maybe to explore some of his themes further in depth.
But I really liked the fact that, although obviously a bit scripted, the talk show clips in the movie featured real scholars (the highlight being Elaine Pagels, one of the more famous and accessible scholars writing on the Gnostic Gospels and (the lost) feminism within early Christianity and Judaism).
A pretty daring film, not very "general public" friendly but if the themes mentioned above interest you then "Mary" is worth checking out. -
MCT:November 19, 2007
Good Ferrara film that is very interesting, even if I didn't quite "get it". Once again Ferrara tackles my favourite theme in his films, religion vs faith. Modine plays an obvious Mel Gibson clone who is passionate about Christ, but very self serving. Whitaker is a man who discovers faith and Binoche is an actress who goes crazy. Crazy with Mary Magdelene! Kind of surprised this hasn't gotten a North American release, at least DTV, I mean it's Ferrara! C'mon!
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MCT:August 8, 2007Uma grande epifania! Constrangedoramente belo! A difícil relação do ser humano e sua fé, em constante transformação em concomitância com as reviravoltas de nossas vidas!
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