Update · Francesco Rosi’sCHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI

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Wednesday, April 3 – Thursday, April 18

U.S. premiere of the whole, uncut model

(1979) In 1935, painter/author/physician Carlo Levi (1902-1975) – performed by the good Gian Maria Volontè (Rosi’s Lucky Luciano and Mattei Affair, Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion, Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge, Leone unhealthy man, and so on.) – exiled from Rome for “political activism,” leaves the prepare at Eboli (even Christ would go no additional), after which goes even deeper into the instep of Italy’s boot, coming into a world he by no means knew existed: the desperately poor city of Grassano (in recent times a vacationer magnet), the place essentially the most desolate of landscapes exist facet by facet with ravishing pure magnificence; a land with one automotive, one rest room; the place love potions, healing cash, and spells are believed in facet by facet with Christianity – the drunken, studiously ignored priest denounces the locals as “donkeys, not Christians;” the place cleansing woman Irene Papas (Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek) can decently enter his home solely as a result of she’s already had 17 youngsters with 17 totally different males; and the place, till Levi is allowed to observe himself, there are not any competent, trusted medical doctors. And but, as Levi lives amongst them, humanity begins to interrupt by. Based on Levi’s best-selling 1945 memoir. Made for Italian tv in 4 55-minute elements, it was reduce in half for its 1980 U.S. launch (to 2 hours — Rosi’s personal theatrical reduce was 2½) and senselessly re-titled Eboli. This is the U.S. theatrical premiere of Rosi’s full, uncut epic. DCP. Approx. 220 min, plus intermission.

A RIALTO PICTURES RELEASE

Reviews

“ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL.”
– David Denby

“A secular miracle! The director’s masterpiece and a stunning introduction to his work.”
– Michael Sragow

“Best viewed as a meditation, not a conventional drama… An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight.”
– David Sterritt

“I was completely absorbed… the audience seemed hushed, as if at a concert where the musicians were playing very softly.”
– Pauline Kael

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