A scene from the film "The Flowers of St. Francis" (original title: "Francesco, giullare di Dio"), directed by Roberto Rossellini. (Photo provided by the Italian Cultural Institute)
There are figures that time does not erode, but reinvents. Francis of Assisi belongs to this rare category: eight centuries after his death, he continues to be revisited, questioned, and moved beyond all fixed ideas. From May 5 to 12, the retrospective "The Face and the Threshold," presented at Metropolis Art Cinema by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Italy, is not so much a tribute as an observation of the changing perspectives on the sacred. Read more In ‘Souraya, Mon Amour,’ the widow does more than dance "I started by studying an article written for the Saint Francis encyclopedia published in Italy, I watched all the films made on the subject since the beginning of the twentieth century, I conducted research, and I even worked for a long time on the title of this cycle about Saint Francis,"...
There are figures that time does not erode, but reinvents. Francis of Assisi belongs to this rare category: eight centuries after his death, he continues to be revisited, questioned, and moved beyond all fixed ideas. From May 5 to 12, the retrospective "The Face and the Threshold," presented at Metropolis Art Cinema by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Italy, is not so much a tribute as an observation of the changing perspectives on the sacred. Read more In ‘Souraya, Mon Amour,’ the widow does more than dance "I started by studying an article written for the Saint Francis encyclopedia published in Italy, I watched all the films made on the subject since the beginning of the twentieth century, I conducted research, and I even worked for a long time on the title of this cycle about Saint...