11/21/2023 0 Comments Half life echoes![]() ![]() And I felt a little sad.” Then, half-jokingly, he adds: “Maybe I made this movie so people would talk about him again.” And then when I did junkets for ‘Albert Nobbs’ nobody asked anymore. “But everyone always assumed I didn’t want to talk about him. “There were 10 years of interviews before people stopped asking me about my dad,” García recalls. At his funeral in April 2014 in Mexico City, attended by the presidents of Colombia and Mexico, tens of thousands of mourners paid tribute. ![]() Márquez wasn’t just any writer the author of “A Hundred Years of Solitude” was a literary colossus, as iconic in his field as a Frank Sinatra or a Marlon Brando or a Michael Jordan. Satan, the fallen angel Lucifer, has actually seen the face of God, and he holds this intimacy over Jesus, who never has. One of the movie’s conceits is the sibling-like rivalry between Jesus and the duplicitous Satan, who tries to turn Jesus against his Father. “Yeshua needed to free this boy because he could not free himself,” García explains. Set against this father-son struggle is Jesus’ relationship with his silent Father, who has laid out a destiny for his chosen son. There is a sick mother (Ayelet Zarer), a stern and stubborn father (Ciarán Hinds) and their teenage son (Tye Sheridan), who wants to escape from his father’s yoke and find his fortune in Jerusalem. They take him in, and Satan challenges him to resolve the problems that are tearing the family apart. García invents a family Jesus encounters in the desert. Satan.Īt its heart it’s a story of fathers and sons. In “Last Days,” Jesus is called Yeshua, and he’s played by Ewan McGregor, who also plays his alter ego, “The Demon,” a.k.a. Hushed, spare, intensely personal, featuring an appealingly human and vulnerable Jesus - and beautifully shot by multiple Oscar winner Emmanuel Lubezki - “Last Days in the Desert” isn’t your standard biblical epic. ![]()
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