The Crucifixion revisited with black Jesus as victim of bias crime.
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12/22/06
Color of The Cross (2006)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:3
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.3/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This powerful, epic film vividly portrays the last 48 hours of the life of Jesus Christ and challenges commonly held assumptions about Him. With moving performances from Jean-Claude LaMarre... [More]
Starring: Jean-Claude La Marre, Johann John Jean, Adam Green, Debbi Morgan
Director: Jean-Claude La Marre
Reviews for Color of The Cross
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
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11/11/06
Color of the Cross, a low-budget re-imagining of Christs final days, makes a big deal out of the relatively tame suggestion that Jesus was black.
11/10/06
Top CriticDirector, cowriter, coproducer and star LaMarre is more interested in Jesus' teachings than in his suffering, and suggests that race may have helped shape the course of biblical events.
11/10/06
Filled with close-ups of Jesus and his apostles (all the better to hide the absence of elaborate period sets), mixing quotes from the Scripture with flat exposition, this low-budget affair is earnest and, alas, more than a little bit cartoonish.
11/10/06
A too-specific tale of historic injustice rather than one of divinely benevolent sacrifice on everybody’s behalf.
11/09/06
Press releases are promoting the film as 'controversial' before the fact, but compared to such predecessors as 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' 'Godspell' and 'The Passion of the Christ,' 'Color' -- race issue aside -- unspools like a Sunday-school filmstrip.
11/06/06
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10/28/06
...The first film to depict a black African Jesus is hindered by shoddy production values and so-so storytelling.
10/27/06
Lacking the drama of Jesus' trial and the passion, as well as the substance of his teachings, (actor Jean Claude) LaMarre's turgid take has very little to offer dramatically or inspirationally.
10/26/06
Top CriticMany are calling Color of the Cross controversial, but it's really not. It simply states a possibility -- that Christ was a man of color -- which it dramatizes earnestly within the narrow confines of its $2.5 million budget.
10/26/06
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