Pier Paolo Pasolini's reputation as an atheist, Marxist and homosexual made some critics uncomfortable when he decided to retell the story of Jesus Christ.

Far from parable, with a refreshingly humanist approach, The Gospel According to St Matthew is a thoughtful, socially aware retelling of well known biblical events. Preferencing Matthew's account, Pasolini sites John's as too mystical, Mark's as too vulgar and Luke's as too sentimental. This film is certainly none of those things. 

Every bit as beautiful as Bresson or Dreyer's treatment of Joan of Arc and certainly as fiercely political as the rest of his great body of his work, Pasolini's Gospel is a mesmeric yet surprisingly social realist cinema experience.

Emphatically moving, on phenomenological, philosophical and emotional levels, Gospel is a great work of enduring visual poetry. 

"A fierce magnesium flame of a movie" ★★★★★ Guardian

"arguably up there with Pasolini’s best." ★★★★★ Little White Lies

"cinema's most impressive biblical movie to date" Observer

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