Gospel According to Mary with Benedetta Porcaroli in theaters in May

Gospel According to Marythe new film by Paolo Zucca with Alessandro Gassmann And Benedetta Porcarolibased on the novel of the same name by Barbara Alberti arrives at the cinema May 23. After being introduced Out of Competition at the 41st Turin Film Festival.

Gospel According to Mary history

Mary is a little girl from Nazareth. As a woman everything is forbidden to her, even learning to read and write. But she dreams of freedom and wisdom. At the synagogue she becomes enthusiastic about the stories of the Bible, like Don Quixote with adventure novels. From the audacity of the prophets she has learned disobedience, she dreams of escaping on a donkey and discovering the world, going far away.

He finds in Giuseppe a teacher and an accomplice. Their marriage is chaste, a screen, while he secretly instructs her, preparing her for her escape. But here’s an unexpected obstacle: Mary and Joseph fall in love. They are about to abandon themselves to passion, when the angel of the annunciation ruins everything. God’s plan and Mary’s plan do not coincide.

The director Paolo Zucca

«Gospel according to Mary can be defined – explains the director Paolo Zucca – as a Bildungsroman, even if the thematic core of the story goes well beyond the account of the inner growth of its protagonist, calling into question philosophical, political and moral components of extraordinary complexity, such as free will, original sin, the power of knowledge, patriarchy, women’s self-determination.

«However – continues the director – if I had to identify the beating heart of this cinematographic story (which in the long journey from the pages of the novel to the last editing revision has experienced profound and profitable transformations) I would say that first of all it is a story of Love. An asymmetrical, fragile love that is born and evolves in unpredictable and unprecedented circumstances. A love so tenacious that it challenges destiny, divine will, death.”