New Delhi:Martin Scorsese is on a tour of Italy after Cannes, where over the weekend the director, known for his religious leanings, met with Pope Francis and announced that he would make a film about Jesus, reports Variety. will build.
Scorsese was recently at the Cannes Film Festival, where his film, “Killer of the Flower Moon,” with Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, was screened to long applause.
Scorsese said Saturday during a Rome conference at the Vatican, “I have answered the Pope’s appeal to artists the only way I know how: by conceiving and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus.” ” Diversity’.
“And I’m about to start making it,” said the director, suggesting it could be his next film.
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Also on Saturday, before attending the conference – titled “The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination” – Scorsese and his wife, Helen Morris, met with Pope Francis during a brief private audience at the Vatican.
The conference was organized by the Jesuit publication “La Civilta Católica” and Georgetown University. Antonio Spadaro, editor of Religious Currents, said on the publication’s website that during the conversation Scorsese alternated between references to his films and personal anecdotes and explained how “the appeal of the Holy Fathers to ‘let us see Jesus’ inspired him”. inspired”.
Scorsese, noting ‘Variety’, cites his admiration for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “The Gospel According to Saint Matthew”. He also talked about the meaning of his own 1988 epic “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “later steps in his research on the figure of Jesus” in his small-scale 2016 play “Silence” by the Jesuits. is about harassment. 17th century Japan.
That film was screened at the Vatican in 2016. Francis is the first Jesuit pope and is known to have joined the Jesuit order in hopes of becoming a missionary in Japan.