Jesus Christ Superstar – film

Directed by: Norman Jewison
USA, 1973, 108’

The hippie climate of the sixties, professing peace and love, is not so very different from the message of the Messiah. A group of young people are preparing to perform a play, the starting point of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. The film narrates the evangelical episodes of the Passion of Christ, introduced by Judas's resentment at the Magdalene’s alleged wastefulness in pouring precious fragrance of nard over Jesus.

 
On the occasion of the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the Regional Museum Centre of Lombardy with the National Museum of the Last Supper and the Cineteca Italiana Foundation, in collaboration with Gallerie d'Italia, the University of Milan and the Dominican Fathers of the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie, with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo, are presenting The Last Supper in Images, a varied cultural initiative, free of charge, that intends to pay homage to the artistic genius of Leonardo starting from the fixed and moving image.
 
The Last Supper in Images aims, through a careful combination of expressive languages, to increase an understanding of the history of Leonardo's work, making it possible to measure the influence it has exerted through time. It will also be an opportunity to bring a work like the Last Supper out of its natural place of conservation, celebrated yet remote because of the strict care and conservation required by its fragility, moving it virtually outside the walls of the Refectory.