Letters Of Lamech
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Sunday, November 23, 2003
MOVIE: The Gospel Of John

Review links from MetaCritic.

Somewhat positive review: Hollywood Reporter

Mostly positive, with lots of background: LA Weekly:
Though I approached The Gospel of John with some trepidation, I’ve now seen the film twice and consider it to be an extraordinary achievement. Extraordinary for the way it casts its oft-told events in such a fresh light that they do not seem so familiar at all. Extraordinary for its simultaneously intimate and epic scale, eschewing the decorous pageantry customary to the genre in favor of small-scale, Vermeer-like scenes depicting the minutiae of everyday life at the dawn of recorded history. (Even the crucifixion scene is treated with a wholesale aversion to spectacle.) Extraordinary — most of all — for the way the very aesthetic limitations (the lengthy narration, the fidelity to the text) that would seem to stultify the film instead imbue it with a mesmerizing intensity.

Official web site: http://www.gospelofjohnthefilm.com/ There, a 3-disc DVD set is already on sale for $40. After some research it seems that the high price may be due to the debt the production company, Visual Bible International, has already incurred. A couple of the film's producers also seem to have had some run-ins with financial regulators in the US and Canada (do a Google search on "Livent" and "scandal" to see some headlines).

Written at 11/23/2003 02:38:00 PM by Lamech.
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