Good Friday: Jesus of Nazareth

As we travel on a journey of faith through Christ's passion, death and resurrection, this podcast series - 'Lent and Easter at the Movies' - takes us to the cinema as Fr Peter Malone MSC relates a series of thought-provoking movies to the day's Gospel reading. Good Friday - Jesus of Nazareth (1977) "The screenplay and direction, with a blend of 'realism' and 'naturalism', meant that any audience would not feel that the material was too much 'above them'. They could identify with the events and with Jesus himself. In this way, Zeffirelli's Jesus is personalised far more persuasively than Jesus in other films. The audience appreciates Jesus as a human being with feelings and warmth as well as intelligence and strong will."