ROME – Barbara Alberti’s novel ‘Gospel according to Mary’ comes to life on the big screen with the direction of Paolo Zucca, who wrote the screenplay together with Amedeo Pagani. In cinemas from today, the film redesigns the profile of the female figure par excellence, Maria (wonderfully played by Benedetta Porcaroli): a revolutionary girl who is not afraid to challenge conventions social, the laws of God and prejudices in the name of his freedom. Here it is not an icon of obedience, but Alberti makes it a symbol of disobedience.
Mary is a little girl from Nazareth. As a woman everything is forbidden to her, even learning to read and write. But she dreams of freedom and wisdom. At the synagogue he becomes enthusiastic about the stories of the Bible, like Don Quixote with adventure novels. From the audacity of the prophets he learned disobedience, he dreams of escaping on a donkey and discovering the world, going far away. He finds in Giuseppe (Alessandro Gassmann) a teacher and an accomplice. Their marriage is chaste, a screen, while he secretly instructs her, preparing her to escape. But here’s an unexpected obstacle: Mary and Joseph fall in love. They are about to abandon themselves to passion, when the angel of the annunciation ruins everything. God’s plan and Mary’s plan do not coincide at all.