In the wake of the premiere of his new film “Killers of the Flower Moon” at the Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Martin Scorsese stayed in Europe and went to Italy over the weekend, where he had a meeting.
This tied to a conference titled ‘The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination’ that took place at the Vatican in Rome on Saturday and was organised by La Civilta Cattolica and Georgetown University.
Forty poets and writers from different countries showed up to participate. Scorsese’s meeting was with none other than Pope Francis himself, whom Scorsese and his wife Helen Morris met in a brief private audience.
At the event, the director announced a new film project that could well be his next. Scorsese said:
“I have responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus, and I’m about to start making it.”
Scorsese also discussed film references and personal anecdotes related to religion and Catholicism – from praising Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “The Gospel According to St. Matthew” to discussing his own religious-themed films like “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “Silence”.
Scorsese is also participating in a series of screenings of his films and works that inspired them, including a master class in Rome and onstage conversation in Bologna.
Source: Variety
