La passione di Cristo

Redazione

One year ago, Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ couldn't even find a distributor. Now it's generating the sort of box-office buzz Hollywood executives would sell their souls for.
With a week left before its US release, it has become the most discussed movie event of the year, with surveys predicting an opening take of between $15 million and $30 million - stunning figures for a film with no-name stars speaking in Latin and Aramaic.
Much of the free publicity has come Gibson's way from the controversy surrounding the movie - focused on concerns by Jewish groups that the film carries an anti-Semitic message. [...]

di Redazione, articolo completo (2514 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Al Jaseera 18 February 2004