Pope Francis will
receive film director Martin Scorsese in a private audience
starting at 08:45 Wednesday, before his regular weekly general
audience, the Vatican press office said Tuesday.
Scorsese will accompany his new film Silence, adapted from
the 1966 novel by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo about the
persecution of a group of Jesuits in 17th-century Japan, played
by Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson.
The premiere of the film will take place in the Vatican on
Thursday December 1 with hundreds of Jesuits and guests
attending, the press office said.
The film is set to hit American screens on December 23 and
Italian ones on January 12.
The pope and Scorsese are expected to discuss the film and
the mission of the Jesuits, the religious order Francis belongs
to.
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