It is a story of involvement, of beauty and of passion: of love. God, “creator and spectator”, will also experience amazement: The Pontiff dwells on the first page of the Bible, the story of creation that seems to flow like a film. As Jesus had said in the Gospel: “Ephphatha” The amazement of God The sound of the bell, which comes out of the earth and bronze, as if by a miracle, fills the artist’s soul with amazement and in a certain sense he hears in it the voice of God, who whispers to him: “Open up”. Francis underlines how that sound generates amazement in Rublëv: The artist, revered as a saint by the Orthodox Church, is considered by many to be the greatest icon painter. And the screen fills with the colors of his icons. And at the first toll of that big bell, his heart reopens, his tongue loosens, he starts talking again and will start painting again. He wanders around lost in search of meaning, until he witnesses the casting of a bell. Rublev no longer paints, he no longer even speaks. It makes one think of what is happening in the world today too. I think of that masterpiece which is theAndrei Rublev by Tarkovski: the artist remains silent due to the trauma of war. The bishop of Rome defines this film as a “masterpiece”: L’ Andrei Rublev, produced in 1966, reinterprets the history of Russia in the 15th century through the deeds of the Russian painter Andrej Rublev. The Pope then cited a film by Russian director Andrej Tarkovskij, who lived in the last century. I would like to tell you: let’s start from here, from art as amazement, first of all for those who make it, for the artist.ĭirector Liliana Cavani’s greeting to Pope Francis The world needs wonderful signs and works It seems that God himself feels amazement, marvel at the beauty of creatures, especially when he contemplates the human being. The beauty of wonderįrancis after recalling how in Italy the Catholic world has given rise to “a multiplicity of experiences linked to social communication and in particular to cinema”, citing among others the centers of commitment in the radio, theatre, cinema and subsequently television fields of the Catholic Action, like the office wanted by Pius XI which today is the National Film Evaluation Commission of the Italian Episcopal Conference, up to the Halls of the Community, the result of the commitment of oratories and parishes, then focused his speech on amazement: On the one hand there is the creative action, on the other the contemplation and evaluation”. On this page you can find “the meaning of cultural work. The first page of the Bible is then “a story of involvement, beauty and passion. In the text prepared and delivered to those present – the audience took place precisely with an impromptu speech – Francis entrusted a task to the artists: that of “reawakening wonder”, in an “increasingly artificial world, where man he is surrounded with the works of his own hands.” In the creation account “God is both author and spectator”. You, as Italians, have a glorious story about this, a glorious story. And I thank you so much for your journey: go forward, go forward, behind the greats. Also a poetic work, because cinema is poetry: giving life is poetic. Hence the thanks to the artists and the invitation to move forward, without taking our eyes off the past:įor this I thank you for your work. The Pope notes that “wanting to qualify the great works of cinema, we can say that a good reason are the actors, yes, but only – he underlines – the works that have managed to express harmony, both in joy and in pain, the human harmony, are those that go down in history”. And your work goes on the path of harmony. To do this, we need to rely on the Spirit:īeauty is that work of the Holy Spirit which creates harmony out of everything: opposites, opposites, everything… Let’s think – this says a lot to me – of the morning of Pentecost, when all that problem arises, everyone talks, no one understands what is happening, a great mess… It is the Spirit who creates a harmony of all this: everything is different, everything seems contradictory, but harmony is superior to everything. The differences then become an opportunity to be seized, a way forward. The pope during his speech Harmony is superior to everything
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