Rooney Mara’s long-delayed Mary Magdalene proves to be an unnecessary cinematic resurrection GlobeArts
Classification:It took three days and three nights for Jesus to return, but more than a year for this film about Christ’s most puzzled-over follower to make it to North American theatres. Originally shot in 2016,got tempted into distribution hell before slipping out in 2018 to a muted U.K. and Australia release.
You don’t have to be a biblical scholar to see how director Garth Davis failed to generate the kind of response that Mel Gibson’sengendered. Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told should, after all, yield some bare minimum of dramatic tension. Yet most of Davis’s effort is as flat and dry as the deserts of Judea, as if the director and screenwriters Helen Edmundson and Philippa Goslett forgot what it was they found interesting about their title character in the first place.
Johann Johannsson’s comically overbearing score is just interesting enough to justify the entire project, butopens April 12. Live your best. We have a daily Life & Arts newsletter, providing you with our latest stories on health, travel, food and culture.
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