DIRECTOR: Cyrus Nowrasteh LEAD CAST: Adam
Greaves-Neal, Sean Bean, David Bradley, Lee Boardman, Jonathan Bailey, David
Burke SCREENWRITER: Cyrus Nowrasteh, Betsy Giffin Nowrasteh PRODUCER:
Michael Barnathan, Chris
Columbus, Tracy K. Price, Mark Radcliffe, Mark Shaw EDITOR:
Geoffrey Rowland MUSICAL DIRECTOR: John
Debney GENRE: Drama CINEMATOGRAPHER: Joel Ransom DISTRIBUTOR:
Focus features LOCATION:
United
States RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes
Technical assessment:
3
Moral assessment:
3
CINEMA rating:
V13 (Viewers 13 years old and
below, with parental guidance)
This engaging dramatization remains faithful to the underlying message of scripture even as it speculates about the childhood of Jesus (played here, age 7, by Adam Greaves-Neal), a topic on which the Gospels are virtually silent. As Joseph (Vincent Walsh) leads his family back from exile in Egypt, he and Mary (Sara Lazzaro) struggle to understand and guide their unique son, whose supernatural identity is at least partially known to his relatives—including his uncle Cleopas (Christian McKay) and cousin James (Finn McLeod Ireland)—and whose miraculous powers are already apparent. Danger pursues the extended clan in the person of a Roman centurion (Sean Bean) who has orders from King Herod (Jonathan Bailey) to find and kill the boy and in the figure of Satan (Rory Keenan) whose presence only Jesus can sense. Director and co-writer Cyrus Nowrasteh's screen version of Anne Rice's 2005 novel "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" sensitively explores the mystery of the Incarnation in a way that will both intrigue and entertain viewers of most ages. (Capsule review courtesy of Catholic News Service)
This engaging dramatization remains faithful to the underlying message of scripture even as it speculates about the childhood of Jesus (played here, age 7, by Adam Greaves-Neal), a topic on which the Gospels are virtually silent. As Joseph (Vincent Walsh) leads his family back from exile in Egypt, he and Mary (Sara Lazzaro) struggle to understand and guide their unique son, whose supernatural identity is at least partially known to his relatives—including his uncle Cleopas (Christian McKay) and cousin James (Finn McLeod Ireland)—and whose miraculous powers are already apparent. Danger pursues the extended clan in the person of a Roman centurion (Sean Bean) who has orders from King Herod (Jonathan Bailey) to find and kill the boy and in the figure of Satan (Rory Keenan) whose presence only Jesus can sense. Director and co-writer Cyrus Nowrasteh's screen version of Anne Rice's 2005 novel "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" sensitively explores the mystery of the Incarnation in a way that will both intrigue and entertain viewers of most ages. (Capsule review courtesy of Catholic News Service)
