Martin Scorsese is back with The flower moon killers
four years later The IrishMartin Scorsese has just presented his new feature film out of competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, The flower moon killers, expected on October 18 in dark rooms before its arrival on Apple TV +. A film that scores his tenth collaboration with Robert De Niro and his sixth with Leonardo DiCaprioif we put aside the short film The hearing. Adapted from David Grann’s book of the same name, this historical fresco chronicles the massacre of members of the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma.
Murders committed by rancher William Hale (Robert De Niro), with the help of his nephew Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), to recover the oil discovered on their land. Ernest goes to great lengths to seduce Mollie (Lily Gladstone), to try to inherit their property after the “accidental” death of his tribesmen. Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser or even John Lithgow complete the cast of the feature film, which benefits from a superb reconstruction, a perfect interpretation and sublime staging.
A new film about Jesus
After his stint in Cannes, Martin Scorsese traveled to Rome for a meeting with Pope Francis, with whom he had already spoken in 2016 during the release of Silence. During his stay in Italy, the director revealed that he was already working on the post-The flower moon killers. Quoted from varietysaid the director during a conference organized in the Vatican on “The global aesthetics of the Catholic imagination” having “imagined and written a screenplay for a film about Jesus”. He added:
I’m about to start doing this.
In 1988, Martin Scorsese had already consecrated to the life of Jesus with The Last Temptation of Christ, adaptation of the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis worn by Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey and Harvey Keitel. A film that had aroused the ire of fundamentalist Catholic fundamentalists by accusing him of blasphemy, provoked demonstrations but also a bomb attack in the Parisian cinema Espace Saint-Michel. At the time, Martin Scorsese said Paris match on the reaction of the Church a The Last Temptation of Christ :
The Church has become a large corporation defending its own interests. They are obliged to condemn the film. Their organization is at stake, their safety, they are afraid of anything that might challenge them. They tolerate the vision of a sugary, watered-down plastic Jesus as seen in films before Rossellini or Pasolini, but a Jesus who doubts, a human Jesus, they can’t stand it. I didn’t make a dogmatic film about Jesus, I gave my vision of Jesus. I didn’t start from the Bible but from a layman’s book! This film is my way of praying. This is my leap of faith!
Source: Cine Serie
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