Pope Francis hosted American director and Oscar winner Martin Scorsese during a private audience at the Vatican, the Daily Mail reported.
"During the brief meeting, Scorsese presented the head of the Catholic Church with a book while the two held a film flap in front of the cameras," the Holy See said.
Scorsese was born in New York, where he grew up in an Italian Catholic family. This was not Scorsese's first meeting with the Pope.
In late May 2023. The Holy Father received the famous director and his wife Helen after the Cannes Film Festival, where his film "Killers of the Flower Moon" was screened.
Several of Scorsese's films are inspired by religion. In 1988, he made the film "The Last Temptation of Christ
In mid-January, he announced that he had finished work on the script for the Jesus film, saying that it was Pope Francis who inspired him to make the film. Filming is due to begin this year and the film will be based on Shusaku Endo's book The Life of Jesus.
Before yesterday's private audience, Scorsese attended Sunday's general audience with the Pope, along with his daughter Francesca and in the company of American actress Lily Gladstone, who had one of the lead roles in Scorsese's latest film, "Killers of the Flower Moon", and is nominated for an Oscar in the best actress category. / BGNES
