What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? And how would today's society respond to the return of the Son of God? With The New Gospel, Milo Rau is staging a "Revolt of Dignity". Led by political activist Yvan Sagnet, the movement is fighting for the rights of migrants who came to Europe across the Mediterranean to be enslaved on the tomato fields in southern Italy and to live in ghettos under inhumane conditions.
Capossela denounces the impossibility for mankind to realize the Christian precept: "Love your neighbor as yourself". Thus Christ renounced his mission, made himself poor and ended up poor man. And now he is silent, while the man screams as loud as he can.
A cinic director and his assistant come back to Basilicata, their homeland, looking for redemption. 50 years aged and aristically loser, they try to shoot a rickety investigative movie titled "Il Vangelo secondo Mattei" in the same location where Pasolini filmed his "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" but focusing on the disasters caused by oil extractions in their wasteland of Basilicata, in the south of Italy. As main character, they choose Franco, 70 years old, that was an extra in Pasolini film...
Barcelona, 1939. Casimiro Casals, un partidario del alzamiento nacional, abandona su hogar, dividido ideológicamente por la guerra civil. Su hermano Jordi se hará cargo de la casa y de la familia. Por su parte, el mayordomo (Vittorio Gassman), testigo y víctima de los acontecimientos, sigue en su puesto hasta el final de la contienda.
Película que se convirtió en obra-manifiesto de la Escuela de Barcelona, y que tiene como finalidad sentar las bases de una determinada estética pop a la española, en las que las imágenes no pueden remitir al mundo sino a la publicidad que nos vende el mundo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un chico y una chica, ambos deprimidos por problemas sentimentales, se encuentran en un bar. Pese a no conocerse de nada, inician un recorrido por las tascas de la ciudad, por las cuales el muchacho pasó tantas horas en compañía de su ex-novia. A medida que va avanzando la noche, ambos van conociéndose mejor, tanto uno al otro como a sí mismos
