Your choices for Easter-themed films are either rabbits or Jesus.
I suppose that makes Martin Scorsese’s 1988 masterpiece The Last Temptation of Christ my favorite Easter-themed film. Anchored by a fully-committed performance from Willem Dafoe and elevated to the heavens by Peter Gabriel’s brilliant score, this is the very definition of a “passion” project.
I’m not a believer, but this film helped me understand why people connect to this story more than going to mass every week for the first 15 years of my life.
What did you do this weekend?