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- How long is The Gospel According To Matthew?
- The Gospel According To Matthew is 2 hr 16 min long.
- Who directed The Gospel According To Matthew?
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Who is Christ in The Gospel According To Matthew?
- Enrique Irazoqui plays Christ in the film.
- What is The Gospel According To Matthew about?
- Working from the perspective of “an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief,” director Pier Paolo Pasolini shot this story of the life of Christ in a documentary style, which lends his spare imagery a power that few biblical spectaculars ever attain. Employing nonprofessional actors (Spanish economics student Enrique Irazoqui portrayed Jesus, a role for which Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg reportedly were considered) and dialogue drawn directly from Matthew’s text, the film effectively allies Jesus with the meek and poor in spirit, and his rejection of materialism was a theme Pasolini often championed. In Italian with English subtitles.