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...
In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
A woman uselessly insists on entertaining a man by telling him stories that don’t interest him as much as his works. A film about the impossibility of telling a story that, to this end, concentrates on the story of two people who have a relationship that is destined to fail.
A man and a woman, both disappointed with their partners, meet by chance at the beginning of the night. They will spend the night together drinking red wine in Barcelona's Chinatown.
Фильм описывает жизнь Иисуса с марксистско-католической точки зрения режиссёра и является как одним из самых критикуемых, так и одним из самых известных исторических картин. Фильм считается очень правдивой экранизацией текста Библии, хотя Пьер Паоло Пазолини заявлял, что "... изображения никогда не смогут достичь поэтических высот текста". Для экранизации Пьер Паоло Пазолини выбрал Евангелие от Матфея, потому, что посчитал, что Евангелие от Иоанна слишком мистическое, от Марка — слишком вульгарное, от Луки — слишком сентиментальное.
