i really liked this, despite certain differences with the real story. i appreciate the ability to make a realistic and intentionally unglossy movie and still managing to make it poetical with minimal aesthetic touches (milarepa's single earring!). despite being filmed in italy, the places look convincing and the main european actors don't stand out too badly against the rest of the cast. i'm not the best to give this kind of judgment because i'm partial to the kind of story…

they're always one, they always have the same face. the same obtuse, vile, obsessive look of intolerance.

an unusual mix of historical theatre drama, politically charged social commentary and art history reenactment documentary with art house sensibilities. uses caravaggio's life and character to enact a play of human life vexated by hostile survival conditions and a rigidly dogmatic and normative society, that both violently and subtly expels the dissident from the security and protection of its ranks. the themes explored…