From popular piety to blockbuster, from musical to social criticism - Jesus Christ has many faces in film history. And the Italian city of Matera has often served as the backdrop for the Holy Land. Both Pier Paolo Pasolini's early masterpiece โIl Vangelo secondo Matteoโ and Mel Gibson's controversial interpretation โThe Passion of Christโ were filmed here. Gibson's film and Martin Scorsese's โThe Last Temptation of Christโ caused a stir and scandal in 1988 and 2004 respectively. Milo Rau's interpretation also goes beyond the traditional. In โThe New Gospelโ, the Swiss director links the story of Jesus with current social struggles and presents a revolutionary Christ.