Znovuobjevený Godard: film ´Zdrávas Maria´ jako výzva křesťanům k přemýšlení
Godard Rediscovered: Movie “Ave Maria” as a Challenge for Christian Critical Thought

Summary/Abstract: The article recalls the controversial movie ´Je vous salue Marie´ by Jean-Luc Godard from 1985, which follows the biblical story of the immaculate conception of Virgin Mary – framed inside a contemporary culture – from its psychological, as well as theological point of view. History, proclaimed with a typical sharp symbolism and intellectualism of the French ´New Wave´ cinema, is a masterpiece offering not only new philosophical insights into a biblical mystery of incarnation but also a hypothetical story of a chosen girl, as it would have very probably happened in the twentieth century. This movie was often misunderstood but above all not studied and analyzed as it deserved. Godard´s work with camera, music, and specially with symbols are magnificent, his message hopeful, sweet, and respecting the Holy Writ. After a marxist Pasolini, the French director, who claimed to be an unbeliever, has left us a picture worthy of rediscovery and particularly of deeper thinking.

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