Granted that From the Manger to the Cross<\/em> is well made, was it worth making? The film critic of The Times<\/em> who didn\u2019t like it at all\u2013\u201csincerity is not enough\u201d\u2013noted \u201ca tendency towards gross materialism,\u201d and certainly, as in Spanish churches, you are allowed no escape at all from physical suffering; Christ is a man beaten up, like a Nazi prisoner in the Brown House. The physical horror is never far away and always well conveyed\u2013whether it is the Massacre of the Innocents, dark passages and patches of brilliant sunlight and the sudden intrusion of spears in the old city, or the raising of Lazarus from the tomb\u2013the awful wait after the stone has been rolled back until out of the cave the grub-like figure emerges, the tight cerements and the face all eyes. With all due respect to the Times<\/em> critic, I find the value of the film in what he dislikes\u2013the unsentimental reminder of the material horror, the link between the raising of Lazarus and The Monkey\u2019s Paw<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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