2005 · drama · supernatural
Mary
Directed by Abel Ferrara1h 23m2005
The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary Magdalene who cannot bring herself to leave Bethlehem and a TV journalist whose spiritual doubts start to consume him.
Our read: Mary (2005) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
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