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8 November 2004 |
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Overwiew :What are the first existential queries that lead us to question the absolute and consult teachers, parents, priests or older siblings? 'The Big Question' is based on an idea that is very simple yet rather complex: it poses extremely direct questions to a large and varied group of people regarding their own intimate perception of the divine. The peculiar microcosm, a surprising sociological container, is the backdrop where these inquiries take place; it acutally is a 'non-place' par excellence: the set of 'The Passion of the Christ' by Mel Gibson. The documentary, that has nothing to do with a 'making of', reads as a singular notebook of laic catechism, and its essence is the cultural, religious, social and geographical variety of those interviewed. The topics suggested through the assorted questions are confronted by a subtle, sometimes humorous research, which touches everyone: believers, atheists, agnostics, or the undecided. The allegoric and hieratic soul of 'The Big Question' is a white dog that passes through valleys, mountains and ghost towns of southern Italy, during a voyage more oneiric than realistic. |
Starring :
Mel Gibson, Monica Bellucci, Toni Bertorelli, Giovanni Capalbo, James Caviezel, Rosalinda Celentano, Luca De Dominicis
Directors :
Francesco Cabras, Alberto Molinari
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online.tvguide.com - : sort of sidebar to Mel Gibson's THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004), Francesco Cabras and Alberti Molinari's documentary seeks the answers to big questions about spirituality, the nature of the divine, and the presence of God in everyday life among Gibson's cast and crew. Where better to undertake such a quixotic quest than on an austerely picturesque location — the ancient Sassi settlement near Matera, a small city of primitive homes and winding streets dug out of the sides of a deep ravine and all-but-abandoned since the 1950s — where an army of artists and technicians whose faiths, nationalities, races and upbringings span a significant part of the world's spectrum is making a film about the martyred God of Christendom? The film's tone — a mix of childlike directness, twee whimsy and arty sentimentality — more...
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www.plume-noire.com - : Shot on location during the filming of The Passion of the Christ, The Big Question tries to figure out what God is through interviews with the cast and crew of Mel Gibson's film. more...
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