NON DIRLO

"Do not tell" is the command Jesus makes to follow every miracle he performs, the key to the secret of personality that forms the fabric of his earthly adventure. Mark's Gospel is the Gospel of action, the first, the shortest, the most inscrutable, the one in which the secret does not dissolve even at the end. Sandro Veronesi squeezes out the secret juice of this text to the last drop and offers it to the audience in its sparkling modernity. Written to Rome for the Romans, Mark's Gospel is, in Veronesi's telling, a refined from conversion machine, tuned to the imagery of its recipients and for this reason more akin to Tarantino's films than to the texts by which the other evangelists tell the same story. Observed carefully and listened to with abandon, it becomes a mine of surprising discoveries, bringing Christianity back to its primitive power by composing the portrait of an enigmatic lonely hero, whose sacrifice still represents a shocking paradox: that we need the death of an innocent man in order to be free of our own nothingness.