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Pope Francis The Film Buff: Pontiff Cited Federico Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ As Favorite Movie
Pope Francis: Cinema Buff Pontiff Who Cited Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ As His Favorite Film
The pontiff was also a fan of Italian neorealism and cited Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 wartime classic Rome, Open City as another film that had marked him as a child, saying he had seen all the pictures featuring its stars Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi. An outspoken advocate for migrants, the pontiff welcomed Matteo Garrone and the cast members of his Oscar-nominated film Io Capitano, about two teenager who quit their home in Senegal and set off on a perilous journey across the Sahara in a bid to get to Euope. One of the pope’s most important cinema relationships was with Martin Scorsese, which began when the director presented his epic historical drama Silence, about two Jesuit priests who travel to Edo-period Japan, at the Vatican.
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