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A look at the strange paradox of films that try to tell the story of Muhammad and Fatima without ever showing them — epics built around a void, where reverence ends up undercutting the very figures being honored.
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Reverence as Cinematic Self-Sabotage: The Message and The Lady of Heaven

The cinematic representations of the early figures of Islam, specifically Moustapha Akkad’s 1976 epic The Message and Eli King’s contentious 2021 drama The Lady of Heaven, present a profound and of…

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