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22 apr 07

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This year, Porcupine Tree were also supposed to be there, and there is still no certainty about their withdrawal.

The Morandini instead: For those who believe, like us, that aesthetics is inseparable from ethics, it is an aesthetically ignoble film and not religious in its brutal dolorism. The aware directors tackling the theme of torture (the story of the twentieth century resounds and continues into the twenty-first) grapple with the issue of how to represent it in images or suggest it. Today's Counter-Reformation Catholics, the more or less masked enemies (including bishops) of the Second Vatican Council, the followers of Monsignor Lefebvre exalt, are moved, and recommend a splatter film about the passion of the Nazarene in which M. Gibson grinds him up for most of the two-hour spectacle with a maniacal satisfaction. From the throwing of Judas's thirty pieces of silver to the crow that tears out the eye of the bad thief, the list of vulgarities would be long. There are also questionable historical references (Pontius Pilate, a gentleman?). More than anti-Semitic, it is an anti-Judaic film, but the question is debatable. And the Romans then? In Hollywood's Christological films, they have almost always been portrayed as the Nazis of antiquity, but Gibson and his co-writer Benedict Fitzgerald also make them stupid in their unbelievable ferocity. After all, there isn't a lobby of theirs that protests. To the censors who in Italy, the only country in the world, have ruled that it is also accessible to children, the law of contrapasso should be applied: force them to watch, in uncut edition, for a week, all the films they have previously banned for minors. 1 star for critics, 5 for the public.