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Mary
UNITED STATES · 2005

Mary

Abel Ferrara
faith and spirituality filmmaking and artistic ego religious drama personal transformation doubt and redemption
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Synopsis

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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