Pina Bausch, Buena Vista Social Club, Yasujirō Ozu They were some of the issues that conquered the director’s film eye Wim Wendersto them the Papa Francisco And with him he filmed a documentary that can be seen currently in Netflix. He emphasizes how The word of the Pontiff goes hand in hand with its actions. In it, Francisco, in front of the camera, almost without apparent mediation, leaves a kind of visual manifesto of his religious political “program.”
Pope Francis, a man of word He began to film at the end of 2013 and was first exhibited in 2018 at the 71st Cannes Festival.
The director accompanied the Pope on his trips to Favelas, detention centersin his United Nations speeches and even in the American Senate. In all its reflections, Francisco insisted on the Promotion of dialogue, in the cessation of the sale of weapons and in the care of the planet.
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In filming the Pope addresses the controversial issues about the Church in particular as issues of gender identity and pedophilia, But also about historical topics that question Catholicism and religions in general: How do you explain cruelty with the existence of God and what is the relationship with science and thesis on the origin of creation?
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The documentary highlights the election of a Latin American, Jesuit Pope, and that Take the name of Francisco, for the first time. In relation to the latter, Wenders presents the story of San Francisco de Asis And how he receives Jesus’s mandate to accommodate his house, that is, from Reform the Church. His way of doing so was returning to the origin of Christianity, of the Austera life, deep connection with the environment, with its elements and all its creatures.
These axes were also those who tried to promote Francisco as Pope, so the election of the German director to make visible this link generates a deep understanding of the values of the recently deceased Pope.
Wenders emphasizes UIn the poetry of San Francisco written en 1225. The text was created by the religious shortly before his death, concerned with the future of the world and his dehumanization. Faced with this bewilderment, he prepared “The song of creatures” as an expression of praise to all earthly creatures, as well as the forces of nature. “Praised be, my lord, in all your creatures, especially in Mr. Brother Sun, for whom you give us the day and illuminate us”, He wrote and in the full text he celebrated the existence of the wonders surrounding the human being: the stars, the moon, the water, the fire, air, cloud, heaven and“ Mother Earth ”.
As well as the saint, the Pope, in his numerous interventions and the different records that remained of him, he was convinced of the Power of the word, of the exchange and This documentary is part of one of its many praises to the creatures that we remain on this land, such as a legacy with a huge dose of optimism, but also a call for responsibility.
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