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The film is an imagined chapter from Jesus' forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. As he wanders in the desert, Jesus Christ (Ewan McGregor) tangles with Satan (also McGregor) for the souls of a nomad (Ciarán Hinds) and his family.
A realistic approach to a dark period of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, endowed with an unusual humanism, with the intention of inviting to contemplation. [Full review in Spanish]
At a time when cynical, pandering 'faith-based' movies have gained an extraordinary foothold at the box office, it should be exhilarating to see a genuinely provocative movie about the trials and tribulations of Jesus Christ. It isn't.
The movie advances towards a synthetic, resonant, terrestrial and enigmatic epilogue that raises the scope of this paradoxical secular film about faith. [Full review in Spanish]
The performances feel unadorned by affect or any contrivance. It's simply the emotions and the words that matter, offered up to contemplate in a meditative cinematic state.