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Film · 1988 · Drama
The Last Temptation of Christ
Directed by Martin Scorsese
1988
★ 5.3 editorial score
A Paris cinema showing it was firebombed and Scorsese needed years to get it financed: Christ imagined as someone who could refuse, with Peter Gabriel's score sounding like the actual Middle East.
“Christianity teaches that Jesus was both God and man...To be fully man, Jesus would have had to possess all of the weakness of man, to be prey to all of the temptations — for as man, he would have possessed God's most troublesome gift, free will. As the son of God, he would of course have inspired the most desperate wiles of Satan, and this is a film about how he experienced temptation and conquered it.”
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