Review: 'Christ Stopped at Eboli' is classic Italian cinema at its finest
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Apr 26, 2019
3 minutes
Both profound and approachable, epic and emotional, "Christ Stopped at Eboli" is a masterwork Americans never got to see by a director, Italy's Francesco Rosi, who's never received proper respect in this country.
Fortunately, those injustices can now be remedied as a restoration of 1979's complete, uncut three-hour-and-40-minute "Eboli," as rich and magisterial as the day it debuted, is screening for the first time.
Based on a celebrated memoir by Carlo Levi, first published in
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