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PhiloIn the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus.
Mary Magdalene moved me in a way that no previous film about Christianity ever has. ... Simultaneously gorgeous and eye-opening, the film uses its grace to preach about the potential of storytelling—especially when it comes from an ...
As the film’s written coda explains, Mary Magdalene has long been misidentified as a prostitute. Garth Davis’s attractive, unsmiling drama sets out to revise this myth, telling a version of the New Testament that attempts to make the…
Colour still image from 2018 film Mary Magdalene entering a cave on a sunny day, wrapped head to toe in cloth. The Holy Land depicted in the film was shot on location in Southern Italy. (Supplied: Transmission Films). The landscape is one…
