Scorsese meets with pope, announces new film about Jesus
“This is your work as poets, storytellers, filmmakers, artists: to give life, to give body, to give word to everything that human beings live, feel, dream, suffer, creating harmony and beauty….
American film director Martin Scorsese announced over the weekend, shortly after meeting with the pope, that he would soon begin making a new film about Jesus, according to multiple reports.
The
announcement came at a Rome conference Saturday at the Vatican titled
“The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination,” and was a response
to Pope Francis’s personal appeal to artists. ---More...
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