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'LAST TEMPTATION' TRUE TO AUTHOR'S MISSION
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The movie version of "The Last Temptation of Christ," which opens
tomorrow at theaters in Boston and Brookline, is a highly
compressed version of the 1954 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis that
portrayed a Christ who was at odds both with the religious
establishment of his time and the church that took his name.
The intensity of the movie amplifies the shock likely to be
felt by pious Christians at scenes of lovemaking by Jesus in his
dream of a marriage to Mary Magdalene, or of his falterin...
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