Bound by a deep friendship, Martin Scorsese and the Jesuit theologian Antonio Spadaro have written together a book entitled "Dialogues on Faith". It all began on March 3, 2016, in New York, when Father Antonio Spadaro met Martin Scorsese at his home to talk about "Silence", the film that the Italian American director dedicated to the persecutions of the Jesuits in Japan, and his relationship with the faith. That first chat, a harbinger of stimuli and suggestions for both, kicks off a dialogue that continues to this day. A speech that, through various meetings, addresses the themes dear to Scorsese: from his childhood in a New York very different from the one we know now up to the recent and beautiful "Killers of the Flower Moon", passing through profound reflections on faith and grace that, in a more or less veiled way, transpire from his works. Among the fruits of the dialogue, there was also the historic meeting between Pope Francis and Scorsese and the writing, by the latter, of a first screenplay for a film dedicated to the life of Jesus, to respond to an appeal by the Holy Father to artists. In the book, published by the publisher La Nave di Teseo, Spadaro and Scorsese retrace the career of the Oscar-winning director, his thoughts on faith, fears and inspirations, giving the reader a new and unpublished portrait of one of the main contemporary exponents of the seventh art.
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