Color Of The Cross

"Do you think they are doing this because he is black?" asks Mary (Debbi Morgan) as nervous Pharisees and occupying Romans fed up with constant Judean unrest form a pragmatic alliance to squash the nascent cult growing around her son, itinerant preacher Jesus of Nazareth (Jean-Claude La Marre). "No," replies her husband, Joseph. "They're doing it because he's the Messiah." Promoted as controversial because it depicts Jesus of Nazareth as a man of color — and centuries of European religious teaching notwithstanding, it defies reason that he was anything else — this pious, low-key religious film chronicles the last 48 hours of Jesus' life, the same period dep...