After leaving Cannes, the director of The Last Temptation of Christ traveled to Italy and the Vatican.
To be presented after his visit to Cannes killer of the flower moon, In his latest film, Martin Scorsese traveled to Italy, where he reportedly met Pope Francis diversity . Thirty-five years later The last temptation of Christ The director took this opportunity to testify to his commitment to the Catholic faith and his intention to produce a new film about Jesus.
“I responded to the Pope’s call for artists in the only way I knew how: by dreaming up and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus.” announced Martin Scorsese on Saturday at a conference in the Vatican in Rome. And I’m about to start.
Martin Scorsese and his wife, Helen Morris, met Pope Francis in a brief private audience at the Vatican before departing for a conference entitled “The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination” hosted by Jesuit magazine Catholic Civilization and Georgetown University.
Antonio Spadaro, the newspaper’s editor, recounted how, in their discussion at the conference, Martin Scorsese multiplied the anecdotes about his faith and how the director also expressed his admiration for it The Gospel according to Matthew by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
