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Mary

2005 · 83 min

A slow, brooding plunge into spiritual crisis, where faith and performance blur and the weight of belief presses down on everyone involved.

Tagline: It takes courage to walk in the truth.
Overview: The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary Magdalene who cannot bring herself to leave Bethlehem and a TV journalist whose spiritual doubts start to consume him.

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: faith
identity
obsession
isolation
guilt
Places: big city
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
Written by: Scott Pardo
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine, Marion Cotillard, Stefania Rocca, Heather Graham, Marco Leonardi, Luca Lionello
Music: Francis Kuipers
Cinematography: Stefano Falivene
Runtime: 83 min
Country: Italy, France, United States of America
Languages: German, French, Hebrew, English, Italian

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