Christ Stopped at Eboli (film)

Christ Stopped at Eboli has an approval rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews and an average rating of 8.10/10.^[8] AllMovie rated the film 4 stars out 5.^[9]

Mira Liehm, in her volume dedicated to Italian cinema from 1942 to the first half of the 1980s, defines Carlo Levi's book on which the film is based as legendary and writes, as regards the aesthetic language, that the film suffers negatively from the intention to satisfy both a television series and the big screen at the same time, so that Lucania, at the time one of the poorest regions of the peninsula, appears as a holiday resort.^[10] The Swiss critic Freddy Bauche adds, among other things, that the film, although an excellent technical exercise, does not follow the poetics present in Salvatore Giuliano, something that Levi's book, instead, could have made possible.^[11] Gian Piero Brunetta, besides highlighting the excellent interpretation of Gian Maria Volonté, writes by focusing on the aspects most closely linked to Italian politics treated by Rosi: "It is not ultimately a coincidence that, at a certain point in his career, he encounters the work of Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) or that of Leonardo Sciascia (Excellent Corpses is taken from The Context), two authors who, like him, have worked to try to penetrate the heart of things and to explain individual events in terms of a broader logic."^[12]

• Christ Stopped at Eboli at IMDb
• Christ Stopped at Eboli: Memories of Exile an essay by Alexander Stille at the Criterion Collection

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