{"id":3281,"date":"2018-04-11T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T09:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:00:26","slug":"cine-pablo-apostol-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/cultura\/cine-pablo-apostol-cristo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema: Paul, the Apostle of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Director<\/strong>Andrew Hyatt<\/div>
Script<\/strong>Andrew Hyatt<\/div>
Year<\/strong>: 2018<\/div>
Interpreters<\/strong>James Faulkner, Jim Caviezel, Olivier Martinez<\/div>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In the Rome of 64 A.D., Nero blames the Christians for the great fire in the city. He catches the followers of Christ, sacrifices them in the circus or burns them in the streets to light up the night. In the midst of the persecution, Luke, the Greek physician and author of the third Gospel, enters the troubled capital with the intention of visiting Paul, imprisoned in the Mamertine jail. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evangelist wants to compose an account of the origins of the new Way, the Acts of the Apostles, and for this he turns to Paul as a privileged source. Luke stays in the house of Aquila and Priscilla, who have generously converted the courtyard and its rooms into a Christian refugee camp on the verge of collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A contemplative film<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The life of St. Paul is a filmic vein that can always be exploited. On this occasion, Andrew Hyatt<\/a> <\/strong>The film is a film for contemplative palates, modern in style, though slow in pace. There is no abundance of tension, which only occasionally drives the external action. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Younger people, accustomed to speed, could become disengaged from the story, which expresses above all the moral dilemmas and sufferings of the protagonists: Aquila and Priscilla confronted over the fate of their home; Luke, who has helplessly watched his Christian brothers burn like torches in the street; the family tragedy of Maurice, the Roman prefect of the prison and, of course, the pain of Paul himself, whose sting - the memory of his young anti-Christian delinquency -, sticks deeper into him during imprisonment. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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