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26 June 2014updated 24 Jun 2021 12:59pm

St Paul, Caravaggio and the agonised Catholicism of Pasolini

San Paolo, published posthumously in 1977 and presented here for the first time in English as St Paul, is Pasolini’s screenplay for the life of the apostle. 

By Ian Thomson

(Photo By Mondadori/Getty)

Poet and provocateur: Pasolini on location in Italy, 1970s. Photo: Mondadori via Getty

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